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Fair Day is 23 days away!
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2013, Sponsored by Glencore International
and Canadian Jackalope Open
We are excited about our new
fair venue at The Regent’s School on Highway 36 with its open spaces, green
grass and fresh air; simply, it just doesn’t get much better than that.
Lewis Underwood
We are excited about our new fair venue at The Regent’s School on
Highway 36 with its open spaces, green grass and fresh air; simply, it just
doesn’t get much better than that. What is more, given the fact that 75 of
our prospective 90 stalls are already booked, it sounds like you approve
too.
However, there have been some mutterings about the new site being too far,
which is a myth we would like to dispel. For instance, Google Maps show that
if you were going from Foodland in Pattaya Klang, it would take only 11
minutes to get to Regent’s School via Sukhumvit, the new Highway 7 Link and
exiting onto Highway 36 towards Banglamung. If memory serves me well, I
could not get to our former fair site from South Pattaya in that time.
Google Maps show that if you
were going from Foodland in Pattaya Klang, it would take only 11 minutes to
get to Regent’s School via Sukhumvit, the new Highway 7 Link and exiting
onto Highway 36 towards Banglamung.
For those who still do not know where The Regent’s School
is located, it is right next door to the Banglamung Motor Vehicle Registry
Office, where driver’s licenses are also available. In fact, since this
facility is closed on weekends, it will also provide additional parking for
fair goers.
Still another landmark is the new Pattaya Sheep Farm, which is directly
opposite from the school on Hwy 36.
For those people living on the Dark Side, there are a number of back roads
one can take without touching any highways. Two options are going via the
Pattaya Crocodile Farm or the Moolitripakdee International School on Soi 25
off Route 3240. Both of these routes meet up near the ARC Engineering
factory in Banglamung (look for the penguin statues), which is 200 meters
from the road leading to the school. We will have signs on the back roads,
and highways, to also show the way.
Nevertheless, if one doesn’t care for any of the options presented so far,
we will supply 3 shuttle buses from Pattaya Klang on Sukhumvit Highway in
the vicinity of Father Ray’s Foundation, which is just before the Boontavorn
DIY Store. We are in the process of arranging secure parking for motorbikes
and cars there. The buses will by conspicuously marked to ease finding their
location.
So, let’s get out of the congested city and away from it all to the open
country for a day of fun with your families, and our project kids, who you
are helping to have better lives.
For more info about our events and projects, please visit us at
www.care4kids.info and/or
www.facebook.com/jesterscare.forkids.
For renting stalls, please go to:
http://www.care4kids.info/rent-a-stall.html.
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IB students set new records at Garden
Mark Beales
Photos by Ritche Guisona
Students from Garden International School (GIS) have achieved record-breaking
results following their International Baccalaureate (IB) studies.
The average score for the successful IB Programme Diploma students at GIS was 34
points out of 45, the best-ever result in the history of the school and far
above the global average score of 29.8.
Ben Bartlett has achieved Garden
International School’s best-ever IB score.
Ben Bartlett was awarded a remarkable 44 out of 45 points -
GIS’s best-ever score, while many other students gained the prestigious diploma.
Ben had studied at GIS since Year 8 and as well as excelling in every subject,
he is also a talented composer and musician.
GIS had 19 students taking the IB course and the majority of these achieved the
full diploma. The average grade per subject for the successful diploma students
was an impressive 5.37 out of a possible 7.
Ian Fraser, IB Coordinator at GIS, said: “These fantastic results are the
end-product of the excellent work put in by our IB2 students and are also a
timely reflection of the high teaching standards we aim for at Garden. The IB
Diploma Programme is a really tough course but our students have responded
magnificently. It was a pleasure to watch these students mature into
internationally-minded young men and women, and meet all the challenges that IB
presented to them.”
Some of Garden’s successful IB
students.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is the
world’s premier pre-university course and begins in Year 12. Students have to
study across a range of six subjects and also complete community-based
activities and other tasks. The IB Diploma Programme is ideal for students who
aim to further their studies at leading universities worldwide, including
Thailand. Founded in 1968, there are around 1 million IB students at 3,440
schools in 141 countries across the world.
Garden International School, which is based in Ban Chang near Pattaya, began
offering the IB Diploma in 1998 and is one of the most-established IB centres in
the region. For more on Garden, visit
www.gardenrayong.com.
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Green Pattaya holds fifth monthly clean up
Green Pattaya, Rotary Interact
Club from Banglamung School and Koto joined forces to clean up Jomtien Beach
Saturday 3 August.
Green Pattaya and Koto (Keeper of the Ocean) joined forces on
Jomtien Beach Saturday 3 August for a morning picking up detritus deposited by
the incoming tide. Koto is known by anyone who has spent time in Jomtien as he
tirelessly patrols the shoreline collecting rubbish and making friends with the
beach dogs.
Green Pattaya joined Koto and publicised his works with a banner marking the
meeting point opposite Siam Bank. Then we walked the beach northwards towards
Soi 5. It was inspirational seeing the dedication of this man talking about the
sea with sunbathers, producing leaflets for the interested, while having a
moment to pull a doggy chew from his pocket for the beach animals. One dog,
Lola, a beautiful young beach dog kept in health by his concern kept us company
as we cleaned.
The plastic was in tiny pieces all
along the beach.
Koto likes to arrive at low tide when more beach is exposed
and its easy to see the extent of the polythene bags and string caught by the
sand, so Pattaya Green joined him early on Saturday to help with the daily clean
along Jomtien Beach. The volunteers from Rotary were joined by the students from
the junior branch at Banglamung School Interact Club in their distinctive
uniform polo shirts.
It was a perfect match; Koto teaching the young Interact students about the
dangers that come from cigarette and plastic in the ocean while they joined with
him picking up discarded plastic and glass.
It was a small clean up in two ways, since the plastic was in tiny pieces all
along the beach and we couldn’t spend too long looking for every bit; we needed
to appreciate our achievement before the tide turned again throwing up the next
wave of plastic from the sea. However, the impact was huge with interaction with
people on the beach, vendors and tourists helping with assistance and
encouragement, and Koto always ready with his printed handouts for those
interested. The students made a wonderful contribution to our effort and agreed
to return for another day next month. Pattaya media caught the action and City
Hall agreed to remove the collected rubbish which numbered a horrific 30 bags.
You can find out more about Green Pattaya visiting
https://www.facebook.com/GreenPattaya.
Green Pattaya is a project by Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard and the club was
represented by many friends like Lars, Nick, Nui and fellow Interact students
from Banglamung and Rotarians Neo, Paul, Maggie, Russell and Past President Jan.
We walked the beach northwards
from Siam Bank towards Soi 5.
Interact students from Banglamung
spend part of their holiday picking up trash on Jomtien Beach.
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Student ‘Art for the Planet’ to be exhibited
at Central Festival Sept. 20-30
20 students display their prize-winning drawings
highlighting environmental conservation, with sponsors and the judging committee
at the Amari Orchid Resort & Tower.
Warunya Thongrod
Prize-winning drawings by students highlighting environmental
conservation will go on display at Central Festival Pattaya Beach Sept. 20-30 as
part of the Onyx Hospitality Group’s fourth “Art for the Planet” contest.
The 80 entries in the contest organized by the Amari Orchid Resort & Tower’s
operator were put up for judging Aug. 3. Panelists, including Mana Yapakhum,
president of Free Artists Group in Pattaya, and artists Channarong Kosolwat and
Sornchai Khemkhaeng selected 20 pieces for the final round.
Youths give their masterpieces finishing touches
before time ran out to enter them in the 4th Art for the Planet competition.
The Pattaya entries will join illustrations from other regions of Thailand for
final judging in Bangkok Sept. 3. About 60,000 baht in total prizes will be
awarded.
Onyx director of social responsibility Lisa Thomas said the project is aimed at
both helping underprivileged youth and raising awareness about the need for
environmental conservation.
“It also increases opportunities for Thai children to show off their artistic
skills,” she said. “Plus, for youths lacking in certain factors such as
education scholarship, Onyx has offered assistance through organizing a drawing
competition and using these drawings to organize an exhibition to raise funds
for little children, who lack opportunities to develop their lives.”
Richard Margo (left), Resident Manager of the Amari
Orchid Pattaya, and Chanarong Kosolwat (right), free artists, present a
certificate to Nattawut Chumanowat (center) from Silapakorn University.
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A Special Appeal for Special Children
Derek Franklin
In the early 1970’s Pattaya was still a small fishing village when a young
American catholic priest arrived to take over the local parish. His name was
Father Ray Brennan and little did he know he would spend the following thirty
years working to support needy children, students with disabilities and the
underprivileged in society.
Father Ray opened homes for children who had been orphaned, neglected, abused or
were from poor families. He also opened schools for young deaf toddlers, blind
children and a vocational school for young adults with disabilities.
Since his death in 2003, the Father Ray Foundation has continued his work and
has also opened several new projects, including a day care center, a children’s
village and a drop-in center for street kids.
Another project the Father Ray Foundation opened was a facility for children
with special needs. These are children who are living with special needs,
children who have cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism and other intellectual
disabilities. Father Ray wanted to help these children, but unfortunately he
never had the time or the finances.
Today more than eighty children and teenagers with special needs arrive each
week at the Father Ray Foundation for therapy, education and support. However,
the facilities are limited to just a few rooms, there is not enough specialized
equipment and this results in only being able to offer help to these children
one of two days each week, when what they really need is daily support.
Therefore, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of Father Ray, the
Father Ray Foundation is announcing a fundraising campaign to help these
forgotten children of Pattaya and construct the Father Ray Center for Children
with Special Needs.
This center of excellence will offer early intervention therapy to toddlers, an
education to school age children and vocational training to teenagers. It will
also offer support to the families of these children.
But the Father Ray Foundation can not do this without your help.
Please take a look at the website for information on how you can help these
children
www.fr-ray-10anniversary.org or email 10anniver
[email protected]
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