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Rayong Ladies celebrate Christmas and raise funds for charity
Rayong Ladies Circle Welfare
Committee - diligently working to help those in need.
The Rayong Ladies Circle visited Pattaya for their annual
Christmas Lunch held on December 6 at Casa Pascal Fine Dining Restaurant. The
luncheon was attended by some of the members from the Pattaya International
Ladies Club, uniting in a common goal to raise funds for charity.
Raffle prizes, live music and a merry mood filled the restaurant as the ladies
gathered to enjoy splendid food provided by Pascal Schneider and his team.
Despite the festive atmosphere, the underlying motive was raising funds for the
Rayong Ladies Circle primary charity, the Huey Pong Center.
The Huey Pong Center is a Child Protection Center in the Rayong Province, which
houses 300 children from 7 to 18 years old who either have been victims of abuse
or come from families unable to support them. The center currently has a budget
of 26 baht per day per child and is in desperate need of renovations to upgrade
the living conditions and give them further hope for the future.
The Rayong Ladies Circle is an international, non-profit organization operating
in the Rayong and Pattaya areas with expatriate and Thai members alike. The
organization raises money to support a variety of local projects such as buying
books for local schools, supplying milk for HIV positive mothers at Ban Chang
hospital and supplying essential equipment for Welfare Institutions in the area,
as well as the Camillan Centre and the Eastern Child Welfare Protection
Institute, Maptaphut. Contact Helle Ransten, Welfare Coordinator for the Rayong
Ladies Circle or for more information call 01 63 68 165.
George Harrison tribute at Shenanigans
The Better Band paid tribute to
George Harrison at Shenanigans Pattaya
The Bangkok based Better Band, the now renowned Beatles cover
group, performed at Shenanigans Pub to another packed house.
With the death of George Harrison, the quiet and unassuming Beatle, there were
many requests for some of the famous Harrison numbers such as “Here comes the
sun”, “While my guitar gently weeps” and “The taxman” as well as “Something”
which has been described by Frank Sinatra as “the greatest love song ever
written”.
Ponder on Harrison’s own fitting lyrics,
“A sunrise doesn’t last all morning,
A cloudburst doesn’t last all day
Seems my love is up and left you with no warning,
But its not always been that grey.
And all things must pass,
All things must pass away.”
However, despite the deaths of John Lennon and now George Harrison, the Beatles’
music has not passed away and is still very much alive, and the enthusiastic
crowd showed that spirit with some lively dancing being done by Pattaya notables
Kannikar Ottesen and Pat Burbridge.
PILC receives prestigious award from Prime Minister
Julie Garratt, on behalf of the PILC,
accepted an F.D. Roosevelt International Award for the Rehabilitation of the
Disabled from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
On Monday 3rd December at the Prince Palace Hotel in
Bangkok, members of the Pattaya International Ladies Club met with
representatives of many other groups from all over Thailand who help
disabled people, for the presentation of the F.D. Roosevelt International
Awards for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled.
 Gundi Clement-Setz (left),
editor of the Guide to Living in Rayong and Pattaya, Julie Garratt (center),
and Carol Smith (right), founder of the Karunyawet Project with the award.
The PILC were nominated for the award by K. Nantia, the previous
superintendent of the Karunyawet Home for disabled ladies where PILC members
run a craft group. The PILC’s successful Guide to Living in Pattaya and
Rayong also makes regular donations from its sale proceeds to the
Redemptorist Vocational School in Pattaya.
After a short introduction, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra made the
presentation of the awards to those whose nominations had been successful,
and Julie Garratt accepted the award for the PILC on behalf of the Club.
Prime Minister Shinawatra then spoke on the trials faced by disabled people
and how they can be aided in society by those willing to treat them as
equals and help them to achieve their full potential.
After this there was a reception in the hotel, where Carol Smith, Gundi
Clement-Setz and Julie Garratt were able to meet with members of other
organizations working for the good of the disabled in Thailand.
Julie would like it to be known that more volunteers are welcome at the
home, Fridays 9:30-11 a.m. Contact Carol Smith or Julie Garratt at 038
306150 or email [email protected]
Top news people meet informally in Pattaya
(Seated L to R) Mikhail
Gusman Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agents Secretary General, Vitaly
Ignatenko OANA President, Dr. Sorajak Kasemsuvan MCOT Director General, and
Pattaya Mayor Pairat Suttithamrongsawat. (Standing L to R) Brendan Richards
Pattaya Mail's, Peter Malhotra Pattaya Mail MD, Sophin Tappajug Chonburi
Juvenile Court Associate Judge, Chatchawal Supachayanont GM Dusit Resort,
Niphon Naksompop Director Thai News Agency, Weerawan Worarued Head of news
department MCOT, Boonkerd Wiwatdecha GM V.C. Spot Productions and Sura
Lijutiphum Director of MCOT Radio Pattaya
The president of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News
Agents, Vitaly Ignatenko and the secretary general, Mikhail Gusman took time
out to visit Pattaya after winding up the 22nd Executive Board Meeting held
in Bangkok from December 2-6, hosted by the Mass Communications Organization
of Thailand.
An informal dinner was held at the Pla Tong Restaurant and hosted by the
director general of the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand, Dr.
Sorajak Kasemsuvan. Senior officials from the Thai News Agency, as well as
Pattaya’s mayor and senior business and media representatives also attended
the dinner.
A variety of topics were discussed pertaining to current events in the
world, including Pattaya’s resort facilities and the food and atmosphere the
resort city has to offer.
Vitaly Ignatenko, who is also the director general of the Russian Federation
News agency, ITAR-TASS, and Mikhail Gusman, the first deputy director
general, left for Bangkok the next day before flying out to Israel for
another conference.
The Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies was formed in 1961 and brings
together more than 50 news agencies from 37 countries. Its members are
responsible for two-thirds of the information circulated throughout the
world.
Updated every Friday
Copyright 2001 Pattaya Mail Publishing Co.Ltd.
370/7-8 Pattaya Second Road, Pattaya City, Chonburi 20260, Thailand
Tel. 66-38 411 240-1, 413 240-1, Fax: 66-38 427 596
Updated by
Chinnaporn Sangwanlek, assisted by Boonsiri Suansuk.
E-Mail: [email protected]
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