Volunteer work recognised

Sally Duston has just been awarded a New Zealand Mountain Safety Lifetime Award. Sally has given Mountain Safety 20 years of service. Sally is also one of our wonderful volunteer DRC Hospital Courtesy van drivers.

People do care

Tiwai Crew 3 Rugby Club have very generously given us $3000 for our DRC Hospital Courtesy Van Service. This unexpected but very welcome donation will help us keep the wheels turning and ensure that people get to their essential hospital appointments. A huge thanks to Boof and the boys!

Where's Trev's Birthday Present?

We celebrated our 15th Birthday on the 10th August. Our volunteer "Statman" Trevor has been with DRC since we began in 1992 and we presented him with a Certificate to show how much we appreciate his hard work. All we need now is a nice new computer for him instead of the ancient one he currently uses - it must surely be the oldest computer still used on a day to day basis in New Zealand! Trevor uses it to compile and collate our statistical data and produces monthly reports on this. It has no Windows, just DOS. It has no mouse, just a keyboard. It doesn't take CD's, just 3 1/2" AND 5 1/4" floppies (remember those?) Of course you can't access the internet on it. Interesting that in all these years it has never let us down, never given us a blue screen, never performed an illegal operation and had to be shut down! However, it would be great if we could get Trevor a nice new computer as we have some better software for him but it won't run on anything less than Windows XP.

Any offers?

WELCOME TO THE DRC BLOG

This is the first post in our new Blog. This Blog will complement our website and will provide DRC staff with a quick and easy way to let you know about any DRC and Community news. Please feel free to leave comments on our posts - we really do want to hear from you! If you have any news you would like us to feature in this Blog then please contact Diane.