April 11, 2024 • 15 mins
This week on the podcast we look at a deadly section of the Bruce Highway and why some locals believe re-opening a driver reviver may reduce the death toll.
New hope in the fight against pasture dieback.
And our local legend has retired after more than 40 years in radio right here in Bundy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have White Bay Burnette.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to Iheartwhite Bay Burnette, your local news vix. I'm
Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson. What's coming up today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Bruce Well Taylor, there's a research breakthrough that could help
fight past your die back plus one fine lidterview with
a radio veteran.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, looking forward to it. First though, A notorious
stretch of the Bruce Highway is making headlines again. The
twelve kilometers section at Kolongo between Gingin and Miriam Vale
has been named the deadliest part of the highway. Eight
people have now died there since twenty fifteen. Last week,
a thirty two year old man from Chinchilla was killed
(00:38):
in a single vehicle crash, while in January a Brisbane
woman died when her car came off A bridge. Member
for Callid Bryson head sees upgrades are urgently needed.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I am aware that it's been dubbed the deadliest stretch
of road in rural Queensland, and rural Queensland unfortunately has
a horrendous road safety statistics. We have a very high
road toll which obviously who needs addressing and given the
number of incidents on that stretch of road in the
last ten years and even recently, it's clear that should
be looked at by the department. By the government.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
A Transport and Main Road spokesperson says every fatality is
investigated to see if road conditions are a contributing factor,
and if issues have found, the department seeks to rectify them.
They add the state government is reviewing the Bruce Highway
upgrade program and future works out Colonga will be considered.
But mister Head says there's an obvious solution to fighting
(01:31):
a leading cause of crashes fatigue.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We had a great driver revivor there in the community
of Gingin that helped with driver fatigue. And I was
talking to some of the volunteers just the other day
when I had a mobile office in Gingin, and they said,
you know, they didn't even put lids on their coffee
cups to encourage drivers to actually stop and stay there
for another ten minutes and have the arm and refresh.
And the work they're doing was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The stop was about half an hour away from Colonga
and Pam Rebick, who was one of those volunteers, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Easily accessible, which people just used to love coming in
and we'd often have half a dozen vehicles telling something
there and people with horses. They take the horses out
and let them have a walk around, and the dogs
had run around, and you know, the kids could run
around and play and it was just fantastic there for
the people. You know, they loved it here. That's just
that break, that rest break, because they could talk. Whereas
(02:19):
service station coffee shop, the people serving them don't have
time to stop them talk to them for ten to
fifteen minutes about something. You see, they're always in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The Driver Revivor, like many around Queensland, closed in December
twenty twenty two due to operating costs. At the time,
the state government said more motorists were already opting to
stop at servos or local cafes instead. Pam says volunteers
are desperate for the Driver Revivor to reopen. Some are
still taking it upon themselves to chat to people who
(02:49):
come into town. Their main concern is road safety.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I know somebody who lives down the northern end of
town and she said that same day afterwards that fatal
there was being once and the police went out four
or five other times just the highway so there's a
lot of things happen the highway that do not make
the news. Believe you meet.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There's still an unmanned breast area in Gingin for motorists
to pull into. It's close to twenty four to seven servos.
About forty minutes north, there's a driver reviver at Granite
Creek south of Miriam Vale. Volunteers are there on school
holidays and major long weekends.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Pasture dieback is causing primary producers throughout Queensland to lose
billions of dollars. The disease is caused by the invasive
merely bug. They were first discovered on the Sunshine Coast
in the nineteen twenties and returned in twenty fifteen, killing
large areas of grass pasture. Merely bugs has spread long
distances in stormfronts and are immune from pesticides. Gimpie Beef
(03:46):
Group President Jim Viner says the problem is devastating for graziers.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Producers are losing up to a quarter of their property,
so all grass is gone. There is some leg, gim
and other things that grow back in this place that
pretty much it dies out completely. Over the next summer
it'll come back a little bit, but then it seems
to be a case of each year it'll come back,
but the next year it'll spread even further and they'll
(04:11):
lose more. And over the last sort of four five years, yeah,
more and more countries has been taken over.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
By producers that have the added burden of managing their stock,
finding them new food, and in some cases rehoming them.
Jim says the Burnett region is suffering the worst, but
there could be new hope. Researchers around Bunderberg have been
trialing different grass species in affected areas to grow feed.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
They've been they're doing trials all over Queensland on different
ways of getting other grasses into that country because it
mainly seems to be focusing or attacking grasses that are
in a sort of monoculture. So bluegrass is one the
bits of blue grass. There's areas sort of western country
and northern country that in the Bunderberg area where they
have big areas of blue grass, and so it's been
(04:54):
taken out because there's a bit of a monoculture there.
So they're trying to introduce other grasses to sort of
fill that feed gap and hopefully the other grasses won't
be affected by the bluegrass along the coast. I think
where people have more of a diverse number of grasses
in their paddocks, they're not getting affected as much. Maybe
the bluegrass has been affected, but there's other grasses there
(05:15):
that filled the feed gap.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But with all the research and government intervention, is enough
being done to solve this multi billion dollar problem.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I don't think there has been enough being done. No
one can see, really, I don't not that I can hear.
Yet there's found a civil bullet to fix it. And yeah,
we need to find another way of combating it, because
it happens very quickly, and a producer can think they've
got enough feed for the winter this week and then
and they do their feed budgets for the year now,
and then suddenly four weeks five weeks later they got
(05:44):
quarter of their paddocks gone. So they really hit very quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Coming up after the break, the local company keeping communities
connected in the finals, I.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Welcome back to iHeart White Bay Burnout. I'm Bruce Atkinson,
joined by Taylor Larson. A local aviation company is ensuring
remote golf country communities cut off by flood damaged roads
get their fruit and veg Kawan Yama, Dumagee and Pomperea
remain isolated from flooding in the aftermath of cyclone Jasper
last Christmas. The managing director of Kroid based mac Jet International,
(06:25):
Simon McDermott, says flights from the cans base are restricted
in what they can carry because of a lack of
aviation fuel at the community's small air strips.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Just to date, we've moved in fruit and veggie, just
pure fruit and veggie, and we've moved around one hundred
and fifteen tom since Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The company has five planes, seven pilots and an engineer
at its Cans base. Simon McDermott says the resupply operation
is keeping crews busy.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We're carrying just shy of twelve hundred kilograms most flights,
depending on the fuel available at those locations at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mac Jet also transports ergon energy workers who can't drive
into the remote communities to fix power supply problems.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's been about six months. Even through the summer up
there was very very wet, so yeah, this is a
playing the long game at the moment, but obviously we're
trying our best and doing our best with a few
of the clientele that we work with keeping everyone supplied, and.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They've recently based a jet in the far North Queensland
city to help with medical retrievals.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We've just nearly put one of our siftness citation jets
up there to be able to connect I guess people
from Kenes down into other states a little bit quicker.
This will be the first jet based at Keynes Airport
permanently as a corporate jet. Hopefully that will help out
with people up in the top end of the Australia
(07:50):
needing organ transfers and being recipients and so forth to
be flown down to meet their matches. So that's what
we're going to try and target with that aeroplane.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
When people here for be you, they're reminded of Trevor Luton,
who's been behind the mic since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Fineteen thirty two for me and thank you for your
company this afternoon on the home run.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
His voice has been a constant for many in Bunderberg
for decades. After forty three years on air, the radio
veterans decided to step away from something he truly loves.
Before trev headed off into retirement, I switched the roles
and interviewed him for a final time. You've had hundreds
of messages online since announcing your retirement. What's it been
(08:32):
like to read them all?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Very humbling. I went home one afternoon and Cas said
there's about another fifty here, so you better get cracking,
and and went through them, and I just said to her,
it's stunning and very humbling that you have an effect
on people's lives that you don't really realize you are.
You're sitting in the studio, you don't really realize what's
(08:55):
happening out there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Going back to the beginning, what made you want to
start a in radio? I imagine back in the seventies
it was huge.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I go back to no TVs. It was radio, and
from about the age six, I can remember trying to
figure out how the guy talking on the radio was
getting that little box. And from there it just grew
and the passion grew, and we had I think in
the sixties like Tony McCarthy's Beatles half Hour that was
(09:26):
on every night on four BC, and sort of fell
in love with that because I was in love with
the Beatles as well as a kid. And then I
got to meet more and more and more of some
of the radio personalities of the time. When I was
coming out of school in those days, every kid did
a career or a craft or an apprenticeship as such
(09:48):
as I did. So I did that, but still wanted
to get into radio. So I did some radio courses,
but I wasn't having much luck with anything. So a
couple of the guys who were here four Double g
Ron who's sadly not with us anymore and Gary, sat
me down and they said, right, let's do this. We
did a demo tape that you did in those days,
(10:11):
and we were playing it back one day and lo
and behold in Bert Robertson, who was a very big
name in Brisbane, and Johnny o'keeith. They said, no, don't
stop playing it, leave it go. I was shrinking and
when I hide under the desk and o'keith said, if
I earned a radio station, pelt you'd be on it.
(10:31):
I would hire you in an instant. Just stunned by that.
And anyway, we sent out five tapes and I got
five jobs, but I took the first one, which was
in King Roy and that's what happened. And it's been
going since I was twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Most of your career has been in Bunderberg and here
at four BU. What's kept you in town and coming
back to work for so long.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't know. I just fell in love with the place,
and along the way I got involved with a lot
of people. I got involved with East football team and
then on the board at the Bunderberg Rugby League, and
I got involved with all that, and I got involved
in other things. And early in the career I was
out and every night of the week doing functions for
people at different places, and I guess I just got
(11:19):
to know a lot of people and that was that's
what it was all about.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now, Trev's something unique I've noticed about you is just
how much you love the breakfast shift, which is really unusual.
You know, we're up before the sun and often complaining
about how little sleep we got, but you just light
up when you're starting it four in the morning. Why
is that.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
It's because the shift's so busy. You know, you're thinking
on your feet all the time. It's just go, go, go,
And like doing it now as to doing it when
I first started doing it, when we were playing records
and we were doing this and picking our own commercial
carts and putting them in cart machines and making sure
everything was playing at the right time and all the
of it when it was really really busy. But it's
(12:03):
continued to be a busy shift and that's what it's
been all about. And I just loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You did step away a few years ago, but you
did come back. So how do you know that this
is the right time?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
For those that do know it was for the wrong reason.
And I always had one particular goal that I wanted
to achieve, and for b you achieved that last year
when we won the survey and beat the ABC, which
was just something else, and that was it. I finally
ticked off my little blake box and my bucket list
(12:36):
was complete, and.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Looking back over your career, what are your standout moments?
Sorry to make your condense forty plus years here are
just into a short answer, A kind of.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
A lot of silly things. I suppose when I was
in king ARROI I had to go to the circus
and low down on the ground at an elephant walker
me to raise money for old People's Home. And we
did a couple of and it was two years in
a row we went out in the four x hot
air balloon at the show and broadcast from the hot
Air balloon while we were up there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That was fun.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
There's just so many And I've been in the cars,
the whole and racing team when they were here and
or whatever they were doing at the show, and meeting
so many wonderful people and talking to so many celebrities
and personalities and had a ball. It satur an absolute
book and then lo and behold. Last year I found
(13:30):
out that I've apparently according to her daughter, it's my
one hundred and one year old groupie Dawn, who's just darling.
And I got to meet her last year and she
came and said goodbye, and she's really sad. So, you know,
it's just been fun.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And I guess finally you've had generations of people tuning in.
You know, I have stories from my parents, even my grandparents.
You helped my granddad out with a fundraiser back in
the eighties. What would be your message to the listeners?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Thank you, and I hope I've been able to bring
some joy to your lives along the way. It's just
been a pleasure and it's a real humbling experience. Knowing
now just how many people that I've got to and
how many houses I've been invited into. And that's what
it's all about. If we get invited into a home,
(14:20):
normally it sticks stay on four bu as it is
and sway it is, so that's they're the fun parts
of it.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I thought I'd been around for a while. What a
fantastic career and congratulations.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
True he actually said he and needs partner planning to travel,
not around Australia like you would expect with retirement news,
but the White Bay Burnette, so you might actually see
them making their way through your community soon.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's all for this week. To hear this episode again
or previous stories, search iHeart White bay Burnette on iHeartRadio
or wherever you get your podcasts. We're back next week
with more local, trusted and free use.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have White Bat
I have White Bay Burnette.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to Iheartwhite Bay Burnette, your local news vix. I'm
Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson. What's coming up today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Bruce Well Taylor, there's a research breakthrough that could help
fight past your die back plus one fine lidterview with
a radio veteran.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, looking forward to it. First though, A notorious
stretch of the Bruce Highway is making headlines again. The
twelve kilometers section at Kolongo between Gingin and Miriam Vale
has been named the deadliest part of the highway. Eight
people have now died there since twenty fifteen. Last week,
a thirty two year old man from Chinchilla was killed
(00:38):
in a single vehicle crash, while in January a Brisbane
woman died when her car came off A bridge. Member
for Callid Bryson head sees upgrades are urgently needed.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I am aware that it's been dubbed the deadliest stretch
of road in rural Queensland, and rural Queensland unfortunately has
a horrendous road safety statistics. We have a very high
road toll which obviously who needs addressing and given the
number of incidents on that stretch of road in the
last ten years and even recently, it's clear that should
be looked at by the department. By the government.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
A Transport and Main Road spokesperson says every fatality is
investigated to see if road conditions are a contributing factor,
and if issues have found, the department seeks to rectify them.
They add the state government is reviewing the Bruce Highway
upgrade program and future works out Colonga will be considered.
But mister Head says there's an obvious solution to fighting
(01:31):
a leading cause of crashes fatigue.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We had a great driver revivor there in the community
of Gingin that helped with driver fatigue. And I was
talking to some of the volunteers just the other day
when I had a mobile office in Gingin, and they said,
you know, they didn't even put lids on their coffee
cups to encourage drivers to actually stop and stay there
for another ten minutes and have the arm and refresh.
And the work they're doing was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The stop was about half an hour away from Colonga
and Pam Rebick, who was one of those volunteers, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Easily accessible, which people just used to love coming in
and we'd often have half a dozen vehicles telling something
there and people with horses. They take the horses out
and let them have a walk around, and the dogs
had run around, and you know, the kids could run
around and play and it was just fantastic there for
the people. You know, they loved it here. That's just
that break, that rest break, because they could talk. Whereas
(02:19):
service station coffee shop, the people serving them don't have
time to stop them talk to them for ten to
fifteen minutes about something. You see, they're always in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The Driver Revivor, like many around Queensland, closed in December
twenty twenty two due to operating costs. At the time,
the state government said more motorists were already opting to
stop at servos or local cafes instead. Pam says volunteers
are desperate for the Driver Revivor to reopen. Some are
still taking it upon themselves to chat to people who
(02:49):
come into town. Their main concern is road safety.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I know somebody who lives down the northern end of
town and she said that same day afterwards that fatal
there was being once and the police went out four
or five other times just the highway so there's a
lot of things happen the highway that do not make
the news. Believe you meet.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There's still an unmanned breast area in Gingin for motorists
to pull into. It's close to twenty four to seven servos.
About forty minutes north, there's a driver reviver at Granite
Creek south of Miriam Vale. Volunteers are there on school
holidays and major long weekends.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Pasture dieback is causing primary producers throughout Queensland to lose
billions of dollars. The disease is caused by the invasive
merely bug. They were first discovered on the Sunshine Coast
in the nineteen twenties and returned in twenty fifteen, killing
large areas of grass pasture. Merely bugs has spread long
distances in stormfronts and are immune from pesticides. Gimpie Beef
(03:46):
Group President Jim Viner says the problem is devastating for graziers.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Producers are losing up to a quarter of their property,
so all grass is gone. There is some leg, gim
and other things that grow back in this place that
pretty much it dies out completely. Over the next summer
it'll come back a little bit, but then it seems
to be a case of each year it'll come back,
but the next year it'll spread even further and they'll
(04:11):
lose more. And over the last sort of four five years, yeah,
more and more countries has been taken over.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
By producers that have the added burden of managing their stock,
finding them new food, and in some cases rehoming them.
Jim says the Burnett region is suffering the worst, but
there could be new hope. Researchers around Bunderberg have been
trialing different grass species in affected areas to grow feed.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
They've been they're doing trials all over Queensland on different
ways of getting other grasses into that country because it
mainly seems to be focusing or attacking grasses that are
in a sort of monoculture. So bluegrass is one the
bits of blue grass. There's areas sort of western country
and northern country that in the Bunderberg area where they
have big areas of blue grass, and so it's been
(04:54):
taken out because there's a bit of a monoculture there.
So they're trying to introduce other grasses to sort of
fill that feed gap and hopefully the other grasses won't
be affected by the bluegrass along the coast. I think
where people have more of a diverse number of grasses
in their paddocks, they're not getting affected as much. Maybe
the bluegrass has been affected, but there's other grasses there
(05:15):
that filled the feed gap.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But with all the research and government intervention, is enough
being done to solve this multi billion dollar problem.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I don't think there has been enough being done. No
one can see, really, I don't not that I can hear.
Yet there's found a civil bullet to fix it. And yeah,
we need to find another way of combating it, because
it happens very quickly, and a producer can think they've
got enough feed for the winter this week and then
and they do their feed budgets for the year now,
and then suddenly four weeks five weeks later they got
(05:44):
quarter of their paddocks gone. So they really hit very quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Coming up after the break, the local company keeping communities
connected in the finals, I.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Welcome back to iHeart White Bay Burnout. I'm Bruce Atkinson,
joined by Taylor Larson. A local aviation company is ensuring
remote golf country communities cut off by flood damaged roads
get their fruit and veg Kawan Yama, Dumagee and Pomperea
remain isolated from flooding in the aftermath of cyclone Jasper
last Christmas. The managing director of Kroid based mac Jet International,
(06:25):
Simon McDermott, says flights from the cans base are restricted
in what they can carry because of a lack of
aviation fuel at the community's small air strips.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Just to date, we've moved in fruit and veggie, just
pure fruit and veggie, and we've moved around one hundred
and fifteen tom since Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The company has five planes, seven pilots and an engineer
at its Cans base. Simon McDermott says the resupply operation
is keeping crews busy.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We're carrying just shy of twelve hundred kilograms most flights,
depending on the fuel available at those locations at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mac Jet also transports ergon energy workers who can't drive
into the remote communities to fix power supply problems.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's been about six months. Even through the summer up
there was very very wet, so yeah, this is a
playing the long game at the moment, but obviously we're
trying our best and doing our best with a few
of the clientele that we work with keeping everyone supplied, and.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They've recently based a jet in the far North Queensland
city to help with medical retrievals.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We've just nearly put one of our siftness citation jets
up there to be able to connect I guess people
from Kenes down into other states a little bit quicker.
This will be the first jet based at Keynes Airport
permanently as a corporate jet. Hopefully that will help out
with people up in the top end of the Australia
(07:50):
needing organ transfers and being recipients and so forth to
be flown down to meet their matches. So that's what
we're going to try and target with that aeroplane.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
When people here for be you, they're reminded of Trevor Luton,
who's been behind the mic since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Fineteen thirty two for me and thank you for your
company this afternoon on the home run.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
His voice has been a constant for many in Bunderberg
for decades. After forty three years on air, the radio
veterans decided to step away from something he truly loves.
Before trev headed off into retirement, I switched the roles
and interviewed him for a final time. You've had hundreds
of messages online since announcing your retirement. What's it been
(08:32):
like to read them all?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Very humbling. I went home one afternoon and Cas said
there's about another fifty here, so you better get cracking,
and and went through them, and I just said to her,
it's stunning and very humbling that you have an effect
on people's lives that you don't really realize you are.
You're sitting in the studio, you don't really realize what's
(08:55):
happening out there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Going back to the beginning, what made you want to
start a in radio? I imagine back in the seventies
it was huge.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I go back to no TVs. It was radio, and
from about the age six, I can remember trying to
figure out how the guy talking on the radio was
getting that little box. And from there it just grew
and the passion grew, and we had I think in
the sixties like Tony McCarthy's Beatles half Hour that was
(09:26):
on every night on four BC, and sort of fell
in love with that because I was in love with
the Beatles as well as a kid. And then I
got to meet more and more and more of some
of the radio personalities of the time. When I was
coming out of school in those days, every kid did
a career or a craft or an apprenticeship as such
(09:48):
as I did. So I did that, but still wanted
to get into radio. So I did some radio courses,
but I wasn't having much luck with anything. So a
couple of the guys who were here four Double g
Ron who's sadly not with us anymore and Gary, sat
me down and they said, right, let's do this. We
did a demo tape that you did in those days,
(10:11):
and we were playing it back one day and lo
and behold in Bert Robertson, who was a very big
name in Brisbane, and Johnny o'keeith. They said, no, don't
stop playing it, leave it go. I was shrinking and
when I hide under the desk and o'keith said, if
I earned a radio station, pelt you'd be on it.
(10:31):
I would hire you in an instant. Just stunned by that.
And anyway, we sent out five tapes and I got
five jobs, but I took the first one, which was
in King Roy and that's what happened. And it's been
going since I was twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Most of your career has been in Bunderberg and here
at four BU. What's kept you in town and coming
back to work for so long.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't know. I just fell in love with the place,
and along the way I got involved with a lot
of people. I got involved with East football team and
then on the board at the Bunderberg Rugby League, and
I got involved with all that, and I got involved
in other things. And early in the career I was
out and every night of the week doing functions for
people at different places, and I guess I just got
(11:19):
to know a lot of people and that was that's
what it was all about.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now, Trev's something unique I've noticed about you is just
how much you love the breakfast shift, which is really unusual.
You know, we're up before the sun and often complaining
about how little sleep we got, but you just light
up when you're starting it four in the morning. Why
is that.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
It's because the shift's so busy. You know, you're thinking
on your feet all the time. It's just go, go, go,
And like doing it now as to doing it when
I first started doing it, when we were playing records
and we were doing this and picking our own commercial
carts and putting them in cart machines and making sure
everything was playing at the right time and all the
of it when it was really really busy. But it's
(12:03):
continued to be a busy shift and that's what it's
been all about. And I just loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You did step away a few years ago, but you
did come back. So how do you know that this
is the right time?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
For those that do know it was for the wrong reason.
And I always had one particular goal that I wanted
to achieve, and for b you achieved that last year
when we won the survey and beat the ABC, which
was just something else, and that was it. I finally
ticked off my little blake box and my bucket list
(12:36):
was complete, and.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Looking back over your career, what are your standout moments?
Sorry to make your condense forty plus years here are
just into a short answer, A kind of.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
A lot of silly things. I suppose when I was
in king ARROI I had to go to the circus
and low down on the ground at an elephant walker
me to raise money for old People's Home. And we
did a couple of and it was two years in
a row we went out in the four x hot
air balloon at the show and broadcast from the hot
Air balloon while we were up there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
That was fun.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
There's just so many And I've been in the cars,
the whole and racing team when they were here and
or whatever they were doing at the show, and meeting
so many wonderful people and talking to so many celebrities
and personalities and had a ball. It satur an absolute
book and then lo and behold. Last year I found
(13:30):
out that I've apparently according to her daughter, it's my
one hundred and one year old groupie Dawn, who's just darling.
And I got to meet her last year and she
came and said goodbye, and she's really sad. So, you know,
it's just been fun.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And I guess finally you've had generations of people tuning in.
You know, I have stories from my parents, even my grandparents.
You helped my granddad out with a fundraiser back in
the eighties. What would be your message to the listeners?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Thank you, and I hope I've been able to bring
some joy to your lives along the way. It's just
been a pleasure and it's a real humbling experience. Knowing
now just how many people that I've got to and
how many houses I've been invited into. And that's what
it's all about. If we get invited into a home,
(14:20):
normally it sticks stay on four bu as it is
and sway it is, so that's they're the fun parts
of it.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I thought I'd been around for a while. What a
fantastic career and congratulations.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
True he actually said he and needs partner planning to travel,
not around Australia like you would expect with retirement news,
but the White Bay Burnette, so you might actually see
them making their way through your community soon.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's all for this week. To hear this episode again
or previous stories, search iHeart White bay Burnette on iHeartRadio
or wherever you get your podcasts. We're back next week
with more local, trusted and free use.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have White Bat
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