Presenters

Allen May

Allen's last four and a half years of employment saw him working as a Parliamentary Officer at Victoria's Parliament House.

Allen has been involved in a voluntary capacity with community radio stations for a number of years and celebrated his 30th year in March 2010. He started with 3CR Melbourne and helped raise funds for the Southern Community Broadcasters in Moorabbin for their much-needed test transmissions. Allen then went to Voice FM in Ballaarat for 21 years and has been with Goldfields FM for nine years.

Allen also worked with Steamrail Victoria for 25 years taking on the role of "jack of all trades", covering maintenance of rolling stock and restoration of railway carriages from the 1880s and 1890s.

Whilst with Voice FM, Allen and Brian McDowell raised funds for "Kids with Cancer" in conjunction with Victoria Police. Allen also works in a supervisory role for unemployed folk and has had great success during the past two years with the scheme at Goldfields FM. Allen has a total of twenty and a half years experience in raising funds, 18 years at Voice FM and the past two and a half years here at Goldfields FM.

He has pleasure in presenting music for all members of the community but specializes in nostalgia for our older folk through to music for our younger generation.

On opening day Allen and Bob Osborne were proud to be the first two presenters to officially open the station. Our first song officially played on air was "This will be the start of something big."

Allen was approached to manage the station and has enjoyed the challenge. He is looking forward to many more years of "active" service.

Allen is a member of the Board.

Bob Osborne

Bob Osborne has been resident in Maryborough for 47 years and is a "community service freak".

He joined the Board in 2003 when the future was not promising. He took over as Chairman and, along with Bruce Leech, conducted a concerted campaign to enable Maryborough to gain a broadcasting licence for a community radio station. This culminated in the granting of our Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence in January 2007.

Bob is currently treasurer and presents a sports breakfast program on Saturday morning.

Brian McDowell

Brian's background has been in showbiz. Born in Ringwood in Melbourne, he has been a pianist for both calisthenics and dancing schools. He has taught debutantes how to dance in Melbourne and in both the Wimmera and Mallee districts and is a nostalgia buff: pining for "the good old days". He has an extensive library of both sheet music and records, and for this reason he has no money because it is all spent on more important things.

Because of his trade experience as a letterpress printer (he did his apprenticeship more years ago than he cares to remember) Brian creates all the posters produced by Goldfields FM. You can see examples of his work when you look at May's Monthly Movies posters.

Dan Leddin

Dan presents the Community Hour on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. He also presents a 50s version of Anything Goes on Wednesday mornings and a Baby Boomers version on Friday mornings. Dan is part of the team which produces and reads bulletins of local news. He is also the standby announcer for almost any show that needs help.

Dan coordinates presenter training and the station production team. His technical skills are put to good use whenever a sponsor's announcement needs to be recorded or any other technical work needs doing around the station.

Dan is a member of the Board.

Greg Waters

Greg has been involved with music all his life. He learned to sing when he joined the Maryborough Boys' Choir back in 1937. He has been involved in dance bands and entertaining for thirty years, starting as a fill-in drummer with the Max Finch Band in 1948, then he joined the Gold Star Dance Band as the singer / compere.

With his love of country music he then formed a country music dance band called Country Sound. They played at dances and festivals until sickness stopped him in his tracks. He still entertains and plays at rest homes and hospitals, as well as club nights and hotels. He raises funds for Goldfields FM with Rita Mullins and Leo Harnetty.

He joined Goldfields FM in January 2007 on its opening day and became a presenter on Goldfields FM. Greg presents two hours of country music five days a week and he will play any country requests.

Greg is a member of the Board.

Jade Every

Jade started presenting at Goldfields FM several months ago when she was just 11 years old. This made her Goldfields FM's youngest presenter. She has recently turned 13. Jade became interested in radio after learning of a friend who was presenting, and pestered her parents for about 12 months until they brought her down to the station to see if she could become a presenter.

Jade lives on a few acres at Timor with her Mum, Dad, older sister and an assortment of pets including horses, dogs, cats, rats, birds and even a pet snake. Her show reflects her love of animals with a weekly pet segment where she gives advice and talks about her own animals.

Her other hobbies include listening to music, singing and playing musical instruments, so presenting the songs that she loves was a natural progression.

She enjoys presenting immensely and looks forward to it each week. Along with her segment on Fridays, which she presents with her best friend Erin, she has now taken on a second show on Mondays where she talks about "strange but true things": facts which she researches using the internet.

Jan Tribe

Jan has been involved with Strengthening Goldfields Community Radio (Goldfields FM) since 2002 and, after a short break, rejoined in 2004.

Jan had the pleasure of assisting Bruce Leech with the preparation of our application for a Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence. After obtaining our Temporary Licence in 2007 Jan was elected Secretary and holds that position to this time.

Jan and Allen May were appointed joint Operations Managers during 2007 and are proud to have been entrusted with this appointment.

In an earlier life Jan was heavily involved with the Bellarine Railway in Queenscliff, which included serving on the Board and as a qualified guard and signalman. She was also a member of Red Cross for 20 years.

Jan is a member of the Board.

Lachlan Hickey

Lachlan is, with Rochelle, the maintainer of The Everything Music Show. This is the website which allows you to talk to them and make requests on their show. The Everything Music Show goes to air from 4 to 5 pm on Thursdays.

Marie Taylor

Marie has only been involved with community radio since she joined Goldfields FM in February 2007. She was asked to come into the studio for an interview about a CWA craft day that the Maryborough branch was having, and when the interview was completed and she was leaving the studio Jan, the operations manager, was waiting for her at the door and asked her if she would like to be a presenter. After one week's training she was in the studio with Dan doing the Community Hour on Monday's time slot.

Her love of music and trivia about songs and their artists shone through and that was the basis for Marie's Melodies which started in May 2007. She also has a good knowledge of cooking and craft, particularly patchwork which has been exhibited at the local art gallery.

Scott Zampatti

Scott started in community radio in Wagga Wagga in 1999 at Life FM where he hosted a number of different programs like the 80s music mix and the Top 20 Countdown. His involvement with Life FM lasted one year.

Scott's current involvement in community radio is at Goldfields FM in Maryborough, which started broadcasting in February 2007. He started by hosting two shows: Friday Night Gold and Saturday Extra. In September 2007 his work commitments forced him to abandon one show.

He is currently hosting one show, Saturday Extra, which airs from 4 pm - 6 pm on Saturday afternoons.

Scott is a member of the Board.

Toby Bainbridge

Toby presents Toby's Computer Show at 10 am on Saturdays. He started working in computers in 1974 as a trainee programmer despite having sworn that he would never have anything to do with computers as the result of a Fortran programming course at RMIT in 1962.

in 1991 he switched to teaching at Ringwood Skillshare in Melbourne and learned to slow down to his student's speed over some years. If you have ever been shown how to do something by a computer person who does not respect your need for a slow introduction you can sympathise with his students.

Toby now runs his own business as a travelling computer consultant in Maryborough and the surrounding area.

Toby is a member of the Board.

Wilbur Sisters

The Wilbur Sisters (Sheila on the left and Jackie on the right) present their own weird, whacky and wonderfully insane version of a contemporary radio show. Their Community Hour and Jazz / Blues shows on Monday afternoons appear even funnier than their Comedy Hour on Friday afternoons.