Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Issue:

Mackay and Whitsunday Life

Sit Down With Sam

Hi Readers
What an eventful weekend in the beautiful Burdekin!
I spent mine playing cricket and learning about radio presentation practises, so a weekend well spent in my books.
I had a ripper of a time at the Canefield Ashes on Saturday, playing two games for Borders XI (who went on to win the Social Grade grand final on Sunday, congratulations boys!), taking photos and chatting with players, volunteers and organisers.
From all reports, it was an excellent event and a fitting celebration of 20 years.
You’ll find some photos and results from that on pages 18-19.
On Sunday, I attended Sweet FM’s Presenter Training, and I think all attendees will agree with me when I say it was a very interesting and insightful day led by Jason ‘Wolfie’ Wolfgram and well worth attending.
To hear the results of that, you’ll have to tune in to 97.1 Sweet FM and take note of everyone’s presentation skills.
Tune in on Tuesday evenings from 7:00pm to hear my show, the Home Hill Happy Hour.
Others spent the weekend selflessly cleaning up the beach and saving turtles which was a huge effort from all involved!
That story is directly next to this one so make sure to give it a read.
And directly across the page from that is the incredible story of two gentleman who were lost at sea for 22 hours before a huge search effort located them clinging to the upturned hull of their dinghy near Cape Upstart – what a result!
There’s plenty more among the pages of this edition, so I hope you enjoy the read!

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