Matti Rönkä met Arvi Lind a couple of months ago over lunch.
News anchor Matti Rönkä worked together with Arvi Lindi for a long time. Pete Anikari
Yle’s former news anchor Matti Rönkä met Arvi Lind for the last time a couple of months ago. Lind died on Sunday at the age of 85, Over news.
It was a lunch meeting of “news seniors”. Old colleagues used to get together regularly.
– Arvi was in pain that his condition had deteriorated. He was an athletic and intellectually active man, so it upset him. He knew himself that his condition was deteriorating, says Rönkä.
According to Röngä, the news of Lindi’s passing was “somehow expected”.
Matti Rönkä started at Yleisradio in 1990, when Lind, who celebrated his 50th birthday, had already been in the house for a quarter of a century. Rönkä worked as a news manager and Lind as a presenter. A common note was found immediately.
– As Eastern Finns, our stories were so intertwined that we could sing and perform endless plays together, Rönkä recalls.
Arvi Lind had a long career at Yleisradio. Photo from 2009. PASI LEISMA
From Konkariankkur, Rönkä says that he learned, among other things, numerous memory rules related to correct language.
– Arvi was an extremely funny colleague, two-faced in a special way. He had two roles: a very matter-of-fact and competent news anchor, and then a teller of stories in the work community and a cheerleader, a cheerful Karelian boy. We were really good friends.
Arvi Lind was one of Yleisradio’s longest-serving news anchors. He worked at Yle between 1965 and 2003.