Terrie (on-air name Red Terra) had been presenting her informative and

much loved programme ‘The Shakedown’ on BayFM for almost two decades. 

Her lively and hard hitting programme kept listeners in the picture about

local and national environmental issues.  Over the years she interviewed

many big names of the environmental movement including David Suzuki, Peter

Garrett,  Paul Watson of Sea Sheperd, Michael Franti, Helene

Norbert-Hodge, and also on the ground activists in forests, spokesperson

for Anti Nuclear lobby, Friends of The Earth and opponents to GMO.

Terrie was a founding member of BayFM.  Her long involvement began when

she responded to a notice in the paper in 1987 about a planned meeting of people

interested in forming a Community Radio station in Byron Shire.  She was

involved in the first test broadcasts in 1990 and was on air continually

since then, except for a break when her son Jarrah was born.

Terrie was hospitalized after collapsing in her home on Thursday and died

at Tweed Hospital on Monday never having regained consciousness.

BayFM extends its deepest sympathies to her son Jarrah, her mum Ruth Wells and the Wells family.