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| | The Gift that keeps on giving
The 2012 ABC Giving Tree is almost ready to wrap up for the year but, before we do, we're opening the ABC foyer in Hobart for one last weekend. This Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm the doors will be open for gifts and donations and one last peek at the towering Christmas tree. Bring in your present so that a Tasmanian family can have a happy Christmas this year. >>more about the 2012 ABC Giving Tree
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| | Stories from our youth
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. Brooke Mason from Hobart was one of the winners of the competition. Her story is featured on the ABC website and she will join other Heywire contributors in Canberra for the Heywire Regional Youth Summit in February 2013. Follow the link below to read Brooke's story. >>more about Heywire
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| | The Quiz
For this week's quiz we have a copy of the movie, Single Father on DVD to give away. Starring David Tennant, Single Father is a touching and humorous drama about an ordinary man struggling to raise his family, perfect summer viewing. To go into the draw, tell me, via return email, the name of Hobart's Heywire winner. You have until midnight Sunday.
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| | Retiring but not out
This week Annie Warburton was given a rousing send off from the ABC. Annie has been with the ABC for 30 years, beginning her ABC career in Darwin in 1983. She relocated to 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. >>more about Annie Warburton
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