“Alpine Radio is your official Emergency Services Broadcaster in the Kiewa and Ovens Valleys.  Thanks to our tremendous volunteers, we were able to broadcast numerous warnings put out by Forest Fire Management Victoria over the last two weeks since the lightning started several bushfires on New Year’s Eve.  On Saturday 4th January we had several volunteers who broadcast (on a roster basis) right through the night ensuring that the Emergency Warnings and Evacuate Now messages were broadcast over the airwaves in a timely manner and in accordance with our agreement with Emergency Management Victoria.  And we were prepared to do it all again last Friday 10th January when, at the last minute, the Emergency Warning was downgraded to Watch and Act, and we were able to cancel the overnight roster.  As it is, Kenny Gilmour and Izzy Raw did a solid 5 hour stint from 7pm to midnight that night, reading the warnings and playing some great music – Izzy is a natural and should be a regular presenter!!  I am very proud of all our volunteers, who have worked tirelessly to keep our community informed through this very difficult time. 

We also took a live audio feed from one of the many community meetings (taking the feed from the Alpine Shire Facebook page), and Ian Smith & Bruce Vine had an interview with Deputy Incident Controller Jarrod Hayes from Ovens Incident Control Office on Monday  6th January to update our listeners on the latest events concerning those bushfires.  I hope we got the messages through for people to leave early if that was in their bushfire plan, and, from what I hear, we helped many in our community feel reassured and informed. 

Nick Brown,
President, Alpine Radio.  

2019/2020 Fire Season -  Understand Risks and Warnings – How Well Do You Know Fire?”

Screen capture from: http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer/index.shtml

Alpine Radio Committee of Management is very pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Shegog as our new Secretary, effective 4th October 2019.  Rebecca is also our hard-working Sponsorship & Marketing Manager.  You can catch up with who is on the new Committee of Alpine Radio elsewhere on this website, under the heading "About".  

Alpine Radio's Annual General Meeting was held on 25th September 2019, at 7.30pm in the Auditorium, Visitor Info Centre, Mount Beauty.  23 people attended, exceeding our official quorum of 17.  Thank you to all who attended, and those who sent proxy forms (or apologies) because they could not attend.

Vice-President Hugh Paton delivered a joint Annual Report (attached) on behalf of himself and President Linda Parkinson (who was unable to attend because of work commitments).  The photo above shows Hugh (standing) reading from the report, while Keith Pike (Treasurer) is on the left of the photo, and Nick Brown (Secretary) is in the centre.  Keith Pike delivered the Financial Report, and Ron Fensham took over the chair to conduct voting for executive and committee positions.

The Committee of Management (all elected unopposed) now consists of:
President:  Nick Brown
Vice-President:  Hugh Paton
Secretary:  no-one nominated for this position *
Treasurer:  Keith Pike
Committee (4):  Scottie Graham (new), Helen McDougall, Ken Halse, Ian Erbacher.  Welcome, Scottie, to the  Committee of Management of Alpine Radio for 2019/2020. 

The meeting agreed with the previous committee's recommendation that membership fees for 2019/2020 remain unchanged from the previous year.  Thank you to Leesa Bevan who conducted an audit of the station's Financial Report, and was nominated to be auditor again.

* The Committee of Management must nominate someone to be Secretary within 14 days of the AGM.  Watch this space for an announcement soon. 

 

Members and Listeners to Alpine Radio are advised that our
2019 Annual General Meeting
will be held on Wednesday 25th September 2019
at the Auditorium@the Visitor Information Centre in Mount Beauty (next to Alpine Radio's studio) commencing at 7.30pm.

Supper will be provided
Nominations forms for Executive and Committee positions are available from the Station Manager
All welcome, you must be a financial member to be able to vote.

PROPOSED AGENDA
1.         President’s welcome
2.         Attendance – as per notated attendance sheet
3.         Apologies
 ORDINARY BUSINESS
4.         Confirmation of minutes of last AGM
5.         Reports
5.1        Report by the President
5.2        Report by the Treasurer, and proposal re membership fees.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
6.         Appointment of Auditor
7.         Election of Office Bearers and Committee
8.         Any other Special Business
Any questions about this notice, please refer to the Secretary, Nick Brown.
 

The Committee of Alpine Radio is pleased to announce that your local community radio station is a finalist in the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) 2019 awards to be presented at the CBAA Conference in Melbourne on Saturday 26th October.  Yes, Alpine Radio is a finalist in the category of Excellence in Technical Services, recognising the contribution made by our fantastic technicians over the years, Rob O'Connor, Dick Puttyfoot and Ken Halse.  There are four stations nominated as finalists in this category so we will have some stiff competition, and it's great to be involved in the awards finals once again.  As you may know, we won the award as Outstanding Small Radio Station in Australia last year. Wish us luck!!