Normal is just another word for fantastic at Arrow FM. It means lots of top-notch access broadcasting - people connecting with their communities, offering advice and comfort, sharing ideas and enthusiasms, showcasing cultures and ideologies, informing the wider community and keeping in touch with their own. We have around 50 'normal' programme makers at Arrow. They come and they go, but mostly they stay. So, who's new, who's gone, and who's thinking about it?

New
• The Fusebox - Jade plays an impressive range of electronic music    with expert commentary.
• Gladstone Country - Greg brings the Gladstone community onto the    air. We hope they like it up there.
• OMG - Pat explored religious ideology in a non-partisan way, but then    he left. You get that.
• Financial Matters - Carissa offered budgeting advice, but then she   left too.
• Playing Up - This was a limited season of dramatic work by school    students. It was brief but it was good.

Gone
• See above - that's right, the only departures have been recent    arrivals. Come and gone in a mad rush.

Thinking about it
• We've had tentative approaches from Sheilah (who's from Nova   Scotia) and Jack (he wants to do something different each week -   don't we all?). Anyone else? Give us a call. We don't discriminate and   we don't tell you what to say. We just provide you with the means to   say it.

Already thunk
• Clever strategic planning has resulted in extensive signage being   mounted at the front of the station. Go and stand in the middle of the   road and look up at it. (It's only the main street - you won't get run   over). No longer will Coin Save have the most impressive shop front in   the Upper Queen Street commercial district!

Been there
• The National Conference of Access Broadcasters (ACAB) was held in   the Hawkes Bay in October, ably hosted by David and team at Radio   Kidnappers. Thanks for a well-managed event, David, and for letting   our own John Lynch and Veronika demonstrate our fab remote   broadcast system, The Lynchbox.

That's it. See you at the Garage Sale, Open Day, Party and Accident & Emergency (OK, maybe you shouldn't look at the new sign from the middle of the road!)
Michael & Veronika