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Rotary says “Thank You” to Money Mile sponsors
The Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya held their Money Mile
Award Ceremony on January 22 at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort. The Money Mile
2002, held on Sunday December 29, was one of Rotary’s major fundraising
events for the year.
President
Bruno Keller presents an award to Bruce Hoppe, MD of Copeland Co., Ltd. for
providing sponsorship for the Money Mile.
President
Bruno Keller presents Andrew Khoo, GM of the Hard Rock Hotel, Pattaya, with
an award to show the Rotary Club’s appreciation for his generous
sponsorship and assistance.
None of it could have been possible without the three
major sponsors of the day. These included Andrew Khoo, general manager of
the Hard Rock Hotel, Bruce Hoppe, a Rotary member and managing director of
Copeland Co. Ltd. and Hans Guenther Mueller, a retired businessman from
Pattaya.
The Hard Rock Hotel provided a portable stage and the
sound equipment for the event. Rotary took this opportunity to thank these
gentlemen and present them with an award as a token of their appreciation.
President Bruno Keller commenced the proceedings by
introducing the meeting and then allowing Sgt-at-Arms PP Peter Malhotra to
welcome the Rotarians and their guests.
The guests then enjoyed a superb meal, care of the Royal
Cliff Beach Resort, with the staff members continuing to provide excellent
service at every meeting.
The customary raffle was also held, and was won by Akshay
Singh, the son of Rotary member Anil Singh. This week 3,000 baht was raised
by the raffle and will be donated to charity.
President
Bruno Keller presents Akshay Singh with his raffle prize.
P.P.
Nick Demet, P.P. Alvi Sinthuvanik and Marlies Fritz present President Bruno
Keller with the precious Rotary Wheel.
President
Bruno Keller and Past President Peter Malhotra induct John Haerum into the
Rotary Club of Jomtien Pattaya.
One of the main events for the night was the presentation
of the Rotary Wheel to the Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya. This wheel was
located at the Dolphin Roundabout, and when it suddenly disappeared nobody
seemed to be sure of its whereabouts.
As time passed, the Rotary Club was informed that it was
at city hall and had been taken down by city officials because it was not
firmly fixed on the roundabout. The wheel was returned to the Rotary Club,
and was presented to President Bruno Keller on the night.
Following this presentation was the induction of the
Rotary Club’s newest member, John Haerum. John is the owner of Viking
Magazine, a Scandinavian publication here in Pattaya.
The Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya now has 9 new members for the year, a
great achievement, and it really shows how keen members of this society are
to give what they can to the needy.
Muslim community members in Chonburi gather to commemorate His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great
Boonlua Chatree
Yaseem Itdee Hammed Khah, president of Bangladesh
association in Thailand, Samai Chengsawang, president of Muslim community in
Chonburi along with Muslim community members residing in Pattaya organized
the Idil-Fitri or the end of Ramadan celebration and to commemorate the 75th
birthday of His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great at the
Tor-atilla mosque in South Pattaya.
Yasim
Ahmad Khan, president of Bangladesh Association of Thailand.
Mayor
Pairat Suttithamrongsawat sits next to Hajji Muza Zali Torha, Islamic
religion leader. Members of Islamic Bangladesh Association of Thailand stand
together to wish HM the King Bhumibol Adulyadej a long life at Tor-a-tilla
mosque, South Pattaya.
Muslim believers joined in for a feast and listened to
the holy book reading service by their religious leader.
Mayor Pairat Suttithamrongsawat led more than 100 Thai
Muslims to wish HM the King a long and happy life and together they sang the
Royal Anthem.
The mayor said Thailand is known for a diversity of religions and creeds.
Muslim people who live in Pattaya all cooperate to develop their local
community. The mayor encouraged Muslim people to join in the tourism sector
development, which in turn would help Pattaya become a more sophisticated
society. The added diversity could draw more tourists to spend their
holidays in the city that would increase our national income and give
opportunities for local people to have a better life.
Pattaya Animal Welfare Foundation (PAWS) History, Part 1
PAWS has now sterilized over 510 stray animals! In
addition to all of the temples, the foundation has completed its first
neighborhood out of a total of 20 such designated zones in the city, and has
started work on the second. To illustrate just how much PAWS has achieved
for Pattaya up to this point in time, a four-part history of the foundation
will be presented.
PAWS
history in the making! Cutie, the 350th out of 510 stray dogs sterilized by
PAWS. A very friendly, female, mixed breed, brown, older puppy from the Wat
Djittaphabwan area. Would make a great companion. Posing with friend and
PAWS project worker, Rung.
Three years ago, Mirin McCarthy, a freelance writer for
the Pattaya Mail, conceived the notion of the Pattaya Animal Welfare Society
as an informal club to help stray animals. The founding chairwoman
passionately broadcast this idea and a dedicated core following joined the
cause.
At its birth the club was essentially a weekly debating
society groping to find its mission in Pattaya. Members wanted to try to do
everything for all animals. As society thinking evolved, the cause of the
large local stray animal population problem was defined. It was a lack of
humane, responsible, and systematic population control. The eventual,
logical solution was capturing, transporting, sterilizing, giving rabies and
other medicinal vaccinations, temporarily recovering for an adequate period
of time, and providing identification for stray animals, and returning them
to where they originally came from, or transferring them to cooperating
temples. Their numbers would thus be significantly reduced over time.
By improving the well being of stray animals, PAWS could
also indirectly benefit the community. The animal pool for the spread of
rabies would be reduced. The greater Pattaya area would become a more
appealing and cleaner residence and tourist destination, enhancing its
international image.
Eight months after its inception in August 2000, the
society attracted a pledge of sizeable startup funding from a very generous
Londoner and resident of Pattaya. This provided incentive to continue
staffing the intricate mechanics of how to implement the solution.
Basically a three-fold strategy unfolded. The first step
was to become a government approved, registered charity. The second
component was to try to find a partner and contract out most or the entire
sterilization process with this affiliate. The third element of the strategy
was to properly, systematically, and visually identify stray animals that
are rabies vaccinated and sterilized. (History to be continued.)
If you would like to be a PAWS’ contributor, please contact the
foundation through the following email address: [email protected] or
leave a voice mail message at (06) 058-1665.
Rotary Club of Pattaya welcomes the year 2003
Songklod Kaewvisit
The Rotary Club of Pattaya held a fellowship party and
celebrated the New Year 2003 on January 20 at the house of the club’s
president, Nit Duangdee. The party was attended by members of Rotary Clubs
in Pattaya and the nearby regions.
Members
of Rotary Club of Pattaya District 3340 participated in the fellowship and
New Year party at Rotary Club Pattaya President Nit Duangdee’s House of
Art.
Guests were invited to sing songs on stage, and there
were surprise happy birthday wishes for Rotarians who were born in December
and January.
The club presented the portrait of HM King Bhumibol
Adulyadej the Great to representatives from every Rotary Club in District
3340.
President Nit Duangdee said the party was organized to
build relationships among Rotarians in Pattaya and from different regions.
The Rotary Club of Pattaya has been organizing many projects to help the
needy in Pattaya City and the nearby regions over the years. Lately, the
club has been working on distributing bicycles to children in the eastern
and northeastern region of Thailand. The club plans to donate 10,000
bicycles this year to honor the president of Rotary International, Bhichai
Rattakul.
SIG Combibloc celebrates 150th anniversary
Packing artists celebrate in Pattaya
Seven hundred SIG Combibloc employees from Bangkok and
Rayong met in the congress hall at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort’s PEACH (Pattaya
Exhibition And Convention Hall) last Friday to celebrate the company’s
150th anniversary.
The top
managers of SIG Asia and all their employess met in the congress hall at the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort’s PEACH to celebrate the company’s 150th
anniversary. From left: Norbert
Hoffmann, CEO SIG Combibloc Asia; Peter Herning, chairman and CEO SIG
Combibloc Pacific Asia; Christophe Zumstein, Head of Human Resources SIG
Group; Douglas Broughton, CEO SIG Combibloc China; Peter Franke, Director
Special Projects SIG Combibloc Asia; Nis Iwersen, CFO SIG Combibloc China;
Klaus Andresen, CTO SIG Combibloc Asia.
Schweizerische Industrie Gesselschaft (SIG), now one of
the world’s largest producers of packing for liquid and non liquid food
and non-food products, was founded 150 years ago in a small Swiss town
called Neuhausen. 10,000 employees now work for SIG worldwide. SIG Combibloc
is a division of SIG.
As part of the anniversary celebration, a packing
competition was held at seven SIG locations worldwide. Short video clips
about the competition were shown on a huge screen, and guests were asked to
vote for the best packing idea. Winners were determined by the applause they
received at 38 locations worldwide where SIG employees were celebrating on
the same day.
Creativity shown through with the choices the packing
artists used to display their talents. For instance, in Switzerland they
packed their traditional Kasefondue, cows and music. Italian colleagues
packed art, history, tradition, music and food. In Brazil they packed a
building with plastic; in Hamburg, Germany a building was even packed with
plastic bottles. In Rayong, SIG Combibloc’s headquarters in Asia, a
pineapple field was packed. In Linnich Germany they managed to pack the
summer. American employees packed a cruise ship.
Employees also showed off their entertainment abilities,
and locally the entertainment included the Combibloc band ‘Luk Toong’,
and various singers and dancers who all performed a great show.
PEACH, as always, was a great location for an event like this.
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