Tim Calder

The Otago University put on an excellent night of entertainment on Wednesday with their first Bear Baiting competition. Barry Colman was on his fine “Dragons Den” form for the event laying into the competitors with some tricky questions. All competitors had great, creative ideas which made for entertaining pitches. As the idea alone was being judged there was no requirement for long boring financials. Damian Newell, the MC for the competition, did a brilliant job of running the event and controlling the Bears (”Be nice!”). Congratulations to Christine Grove of Supportit who who the $5,000 of UPSTART mentoring.

Featuring Hugh Taylor and Mark Neal
These guys can play, go and check them out!

Christchurch will be hosting the South Island Regional SSAA meeting on the 8th. I think these are great events to listen to speakers from within the storage industry share updates and advice on new policies and procedures. This meeting will be held over dinner at the Holiday Inn City Centre, Cnr. Cashel & High Street from 6:30pm onwards.

I am looking forward to attending the Alumni AGM which is scheduled for Saturday, 12 April 2008 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in the Robb Sports Centre meeting room. This will be my first appearance on the committee, I look forward to getting involved. St Peter’s School has grown significantly since I finished my last year in 2001 with many new buildings and double the role.