I would like to recognise the efforts of one of Lake Macquarie's quiet achievers Ken Doolan from Marmong Point. Ken has spent countless hours over the past 14 years developing, managing and maintaining the database for Lake Macquarie U3A, in addition to providing support to Newcastle U3A. U3A or University of the Third Age is a wonderful organisation run by teams of dedicated volunteers. It offers a varied and stimulating range of short education courses, aimed at retirees and older adults. U3A provides opportunities for lifelong learning and social connections, enhancing the quality of life of our senior community members. There are 600 members in Lake Macquarie U3A and 750 in Newcastle U3A, so maintaining these databases, on a volunteer basis would be a monumental task. I note that Ken has now set himself up with another big job, and that is to implement an entirely new database system called Azure for both Lake Macquarie and Newcastle U3A. I would like to thank Ken for his unwavering dedication and the huge effort he has put in at a grassroots level to help our local U3A branches be able to operate smoothly.