The voice of youth, summer schedule and an ode to Annie

Friday December 14 Meet Launceston's Heywire winner Heywire has announced the winners of its 2012 competition. Now in its fifteenth year, Heywire gives young Australians living in regional areas the opportunity to contribute their story of life outside the big cities. Lochsley Wilson from Launceston was one of the two Tasmanian winners.  His story is featured on the ABC website, click the link below to have a listen. Lochsley will join other winners in Canberra at the Heywire Regional Youth Summit in February 2013. >> Listen to Lochsley's story Summer Scheduling Today is the last day of the official broadcasting year. Now we go to the summer schedule, some of the programs are local, some are national and of course there is the cricket. If cricket isn't your thing then join us on the stream. This afternoon Damien Brown is on the stream presenting Drive to all of Tasmania plus NSW, the ACT and Victoria. Click the link below for the weekend and next week. >> Tune in or listen on line Ideas for a big weekend There's a lot to do this weekend, surf boat racing at Clifton Beach, the Devonport Carols by Candlelight and the Ulverstone Christmas Parade and even a Test Match at Bellerive. Join Chris Wisbey from 7am to hear what's on in your part of the state, or indeed all the state if you happen to be travelling. Then at 9am we have Gardening Talkback with Peter Cundall - summer schedule or not - there's still plenty to do in the garden. >> Saturday with Chris The Quiz For this week's quiz we have a USB stick of Conversations with Richard Fidler, 25 hours of audio episodes plus a video feature where Leigh Sales grills Richard about his life in comedy, TV and radio. To go into the draw, tell me, via return email the name of Launceston's Heywire winner. You have until midnight Sunday. Ode to Annie This week Annie Warburton, after thirty years at the ABC, was given a rousing send off by her friends and colleagues. Annie began her broadcast career in Darwin in 1983 before arriving in Hobart in 1990 where she has been a familiar voice on Local Radio ever since. A Poetic Tribute by Mike Kerr I was trying to think of an appropriate way to say goodbye to Annie, As a professional colleague, as a fellow writer, as a bibliophile, as a lover of this place where we live, and unashamedly, as a huge fan of her radio show. Radio people don't just disappear, of course.  They are forever in the ether, their voices in our ears and their sensibilities in our hearts. Radio people do not go quietly. They are not like lawyers, who as we know are disbarred and distorted. Should they go like electricians, who are delighted? Or Like cowboys, who are deranged. Or worse, like models, who are deformed, defaced, deposed – and those modelling underwear are debriefed. Those that become movie stars are defamed. Drycleaners also suffer various fates. They are depressed, decreased and depleted. Musicians are decomposed, private eyes are detailed and spies debugged. Tennis players defaulted, but it's deserved, while skiers are declined. Lance Armstrong, by the way, was detoured. Organ transport surgeons are departed and delivered.  Podiatrists simply suffer defeat. Appraisers are devalued and fishermen debated. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning guys are deducted. None of this compares with teachers, who are detested. Bakers are defloured and clerical staff, worse, defiled. Hookers, at least, are just delayed. Politicians are devoted, of course, and in the Westminster system, parliamentarians are dismembered. Where then, does this leave our Annie Warburton? Try as I might, I could not find the appropriate word.  And of course, that's the answer.   There is no way, no word, nothing that adequately describes the delicious, delightful, delectable Annie Warburton. >> Farewell Annie To access the ABC Northern Tasmania website go to: Home | Schedule | Events | Contact | Newsletter Subscribe or Unsubscribe © 2009 Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Privacy Policy ABC, 45 Ann Street, Launceston, TAS 7250, Australia