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On Saturday 17th April, our DBG Technologies team and friends attended the Foundation Daw Park 2010 ANZAC Commemoration Gala Ball at the Entertainment Centre with 450 other guests.

The evening had a Middle Eastern theme to recognise our soldiers currently fighting in the Middle East. The room was decorated with brightly coloured silks, lanterns on each table, harem girls and a camel welcoming guests, and a Middle Eastern inspired menu.

Hosted by Channel 9’s Brenton Ragless, the evening was both a celebration of the fantastic work done by Foundation Daw Park, and a moving tribute to the ANZACs.

One of the highlights of the evening was the Major Auction, with 9 wonderful lots that raised thousands of dollars in support of the Foundation. We put our hand up and purchased a state-of-the-art Scooter World Wheelchair which was donated back to the Repatriation Hospital for use in the Daw Park facility.

A great night was had by all – we can’t wait for the next instalment in 2011!

On June 5th we attended a reception at the picturesque grounds of the Governor General’s House which was hosted by his Excellency Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR, Governor of South Australia and Mrs Scarce where we were personally awarded a certificate of appreciation by Foundation Daw Park for our silver sponsorship of the Anzac Commemoration Gala Ball held at the Hilton Hotel Adelaide earlier this year. As part of the reception we mingled with over 70 friends, sponsors, volunteers and guests of Foundation Daw Park and enjoyed a tour of the facilities and grounds.

On Thursday 28th May, we attended Autism SA’s Insights and Innovations Networking Night as part of the Autism SA Insights and Innovation Conference being held in Adelaide.

We were greeted with some friendly faces and a jigsaw piece with a bit missing to help get us acquainted with other event attendees! Fair to say Dan got lucky, finding his matching “piece” in a number of seconds where as I was stuck asking everyone in the room if they had the “Z shape”.

The food at the Lyrics Lounge at the Adelaide Festival Centre was amazing, and I was lucky to be provided with several serves of a delicious butter chicken and plenty of Coopers Pale Ale which helped get the networking underway!
Thank God You’re Here and Founder of Learning for Life gave his brief but motivational talk on the work he is doing in Victoria to help families living with Autism.

We also heard from the very witty Amanda Tulloch Hoskins who spoke about how she has become trained at how to “schmooze” at networking events in order to be taken seriously and to raise funds and awareness for her organisation PAKA (Parents Assisting Kids with Autism) .

The ball committee announced the theme and location for this year’s black tie fundraiser to be held at the Town Hall on October 31st the theme being “Masquerade Ball at the Adelaide Town Hall”.

We’ll be attending the ball again this year as last year the Winter Wonderland event held at the National Wine Centre went fantastically well with great food, wine and entertainment. The event ended up raising around $30,000 for Autism SA.

Thanks to Jess for the invitation to this great night and for more information on Autism SA you can visit their website: www.autismsa.org.au.