Our Speaker last week was Jeff Harford, Community Liaison Manager at OAR FM in Dunedin.  Jeff addressed his brief “Who is Jeff Harford” by giving us a brief history of his life and a detailed description of his role at Otago Access Radio.

Jeff was born in Dunedin and loves Dunedin and is still discovering the City.  His early life was in North East Valley and later attended Kaikorai Valley High School.  He joined the Department for Courts as Jury Officer and sat through many High Court trials.  Following that, he took a year out and then became a Sub-Editor for the Otago Daily Times for 3 years.  A stint as a freelance writer followed and that was great fun but the income was poor.  He certainly did the job for its fun; not its money.
Next move was to Otago Access Radio here he remains to this day.  Otago Access Radio is one of twelve community access stations in New Zealand and these were set up to provide a vehicle for everyday New Zealanders to be heard.  Their mission is to reach out to under-represented sections of the community and these groups are listed in the Broadcasting Act.

Here is the latest from all of the District 9980 RYE students including our Club’s outbound student George who is in Austria. Click here for the August update.

Ryla will be held 9 February – 14th Feb in Queenstown with the theme of “The Future Waits for Nobody”. If you know of any suitable candidates (age is 20-29yrs) please contact Brian Daniels.

Subjects required for a PhD study of the effect of nerve stimulation to improve smell and working memory performance. Must be 65-80 yrs. old, male and non-smoker.

See David Neill for more information.