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US Embassy Advisor Office hours for upcoming Songkran
Dear Friend,
As we approach the new year celebration in Thailand of Songkran, we want to
wish you the safe and happy time to visit friends and family and ring in the
New Year with Peace, Health, and Prosperity. This will be 46th Songkran that
I have been a part of since coming here a student at ISB in 1967. Those days
were wonderful and safe. Please enjoy the family and friends you cherish
during this time.
Our Advisor office in Jomtien will be closed April 6th until April 25th,
2013; however, we will be available via email, telephone and an on call
small staff will be able to assist you with emergencies only.
For American Citizens, see contact emergency contact information below for
US Embassy ACS office Bangkok.
Respectfully,
Bobby Brooks
Warden- US Embassy Thailand
(T) 66-841580785
(F) 66-823440822
For US Citizens Emergency Assistance:
Please Contact 02-205-4049 ACS Bangkok
After Hours Emergency 02-205-4000
Email for ACS BKK: [email protected]
Locked fire exits-revisited
Dear Editor;
On July 11, 1997 I witnessed a fire at Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel that
claimed 99 lives. The main reason for the deaths was because fire exits were
locked so that people could not escape without paying their bills. I just
stayed at a hotel on Soi 9 near the police station that padlocked their fire
exits also. Why doesn’t Pattaya have someone to check fire exits? I have
also noticed inoperable fire alarms and missing fire extinguishers. Do they
hide the extinguishers so no one will steal them? This is a shame.
G. Schlotter,
Fire Chief, Ret.
Been a long time coming
Aloha Pattaya Mail;
For many years the Pollution Solution Group has been to Pattaya City Hall,
talking with Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and others, leaving pictures of
plugged up storm drains that were causing much of the flooding of
contaminated water into homes, shops, and flooding roads.
Also putting information in all of the local papers, has finally struck a
note. (Hoping we had something to do with it)
We now see for the first time in our 12 years, actual muck removers, men and
women working very hard in dangerous, hot conditions, climbing into the
contaminated storm drains, mucking out years of buildup, sand, dirt,
garbage, rocks, filling trucks with tons of muck, that has been blocking
much of the flow for years, causing most of the yearly flooding.
It appears they are doing a great job.
Regardless who started the wheels in motion, we here at TPSG are grateful,
we should all be grateful, a tremendous move in the right direction.
The Pollution Solution Group
KOTO Keeper Of The Ocean
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Students need basic swimming
safety instruction
Dear Editor;
I was an English Teacher until a car accident curtailed this two years ago.
But I still maintain contact with a number of English teachers. One of them
is Australian and besides being a teacher is a qualified swimming
instructor.
During a recent conversation with him he raised the subject of swimming
instruction in some of the Thai schools that he had worked and said he was
appalled to see that no basic swimming safety was being taught at all.
How to tread water, float and bearing in mind that many Thais bathe fully
clothed, how to create a buoyancy aid from a shirt or pair of trousers.
He also remarked that very bad basic stroke skills were being shown creating
bad habits that can last a lifetime.
It is far easier to teach correctly from the start than to try and correct
bad techniques later.
I would be very interested to receive further comments on the subject.
Barry Hooper [Banchang]
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