Jesters rolling towards another huge Children’s Fair at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range

3rd Nursery Level Games Eastern Region 2003 shakes the ground at Sriracha Pacific Park

Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya, Rotary Club of Taksin Pattaya, and Sunbeam Hotel provide lunch and necessities for kids in far away Baan Khao Yai School

ESBEC participates in “Thai Industrial Open House Program”

Jesters rolling towards another huge Children’s Fair at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range

Kevin Mitch

Kids! Kids! Kids! Grab your Moms and Dads and bring the entire family to the 2003 Jesters Children’s Fair to be held Sunday, 14 September from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range. It has always been a day of fun-filled delight and this year’s fair looks to be bigger and better than ever.

Kids, get ready to mount up on the pony rides at this year’s Jesters Children’s Fair to be held Sunday, 14 September from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range.

The past four events were huge successes, first held at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort in 1999, Amari Orchid Resort in 2000, Siam Bayshore Resort in 2001 and last year at the Diana Garden Resort and Driving Range. Once again, the Diana Group will generously host the fair this year by making available the entire driving range facility to the many fair goers who plan to participate in this action-packed event.

Little Samm models this year’s Jesters Care for Kids t-shirt, available now at Shenanigans and TQ, price 300 baht, or two for 500 baht.

A special short stay package is on offer from the Diana Garden Resort for anyone wishing to stay over for the fair. Details published in Pattaya Mail.

The Fair events include plenty of new and exciting games and prizes for the kids. Many new children’s games will be introduced at this year’s fair and numerous schools will participate providing children’s entertainment including puppet shows and face painting.

In addition, there will be live bands on stage with great sound, famous well-known entertainers, clowns distributing brightly colored balloons, a climbing wall, the ever-popular bouncy castle, pony rides and a superb variety of your favorite Thai and Western foods. The fair will also have exotic handicraft vendors from throughout Southeast Asia displaying their wares. There will be more stalls than last year, with additional shaded areas.

Let’s not forget about the Children’s Raffle either, with loads of prizes and this year with special emphasis on the older kids.

‘Biffo’ is starring as this years’ giant teddy bear, surrounded by many prizes that include a Sony Play Station II, boxes of Lego from Denmark (each with nearly 2000 assorted pieces), color TV, MP3 player, VCD & DVD, bicycle, remote control vehicles, electronic keyboard, and much, much more. Biffo is kindly donated by Pattaya Trader, and all the prizes sponsored by Pattaya Sports Club, the Jesters and generous individuals.

One item will be up for auction when the Children’s Raffle draw takes place - a football signed by David Beckham, so children have a word with Dad and get him to be ready to make a bid for it. Who knows, he might even want it himself!

This year’s action-packed showstopper will be the special Children’s Tug of War. That’s right, no adults this year, only children will participate. So start thinking about your teams and begin to train to ‘take the strain’ and pull to win.

All fair proceeds will go to the three main beneficiaries of the Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive 2003, namely the Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institute in Huay Pong, Rayong, the Pattaya Redemptorist School for the Blind Naklua and the Fountain of Life Center in North Pattaya. So don’t forget to mark the date on your calendars for Sunday September 14th. In the meantime, you can follow the progress of the detailed planning for the fair on our website at www.care4kids.Info

The 2003 ‘Care for Kids’ T-shirt is now available at Shenanigans and TQ, price 300 baht, or two for 500 baht with a good choice of adult and children’s sizes. So too, is this year’s free Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ bumper sticker, available at Shenanigans, Diana Inn, Foodland, Pattaya Mail offices, Friendship Supermarket, Bangkok Pattaya Hospital International Dept., PSC Office and Tahitian Queen Beach Road. Display this sticker on a car bumper, motorcycle, shop window or anywhere, and you could win a ‘thank-you’ prize from our Mystery Spotter who will be out and about from now right up until the Children’s Fair. Prizes include Jesters merchandise, breakfast, Irish coffee or weekend carvery at Shenanigans, and sports shirts to name a few.

So pick one up (or several to give to friends) and give our spotter the chance to reward you.

More news about the Jesters Children’s Fair & Charity Bike Ride, and Jesters Pub Night every week in Pattaya Mail and on Pattaya Mail Television News.

Remember, whatever you do and however you participate in the 2003 Jesters Charity Drive, it is the less fortunate kids that will benefit, and that is why it is called ‘Care for Kids’.

3rd Nursery Level Games Eastern Region 2003 shakes the ground at Sriracha Pacific Park

Songklod Kaewvisit

Pacific Hall, Pacific Park Sriracha became the proving ground for young athletes last weekend in the 3rd Nursery Level Athletics in the Eastern Region Games.

Champions all

Kids between 3 to 6 years of age competed in four categories of sports including 7-player football, field athletics, parade-marching contest, group cheering and a cheerleading competition.

Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate...

Over a hundred young sportsmen from 18 schools in the eastern region participated in the games. The So Forth Sports Company was the main sponsor of the event.

Yea! We won!

The final match of 7-player football was played by Assumption College Sriracha and Darasamut School, in which Darasamut School emerged victorious after shooting more penalty goals.

The group-cheering contest virtually made the ground vibrate as the children put their hearts and souls into their performance. Additional activities included drawing, painting, computer games, and other fun learning tools were provided for the kids near the main competition ground.

On your marks, get set ...

Pacific Park Sriracha has been organizing activities for small children for many years. The group competitions not only give very young children a healthy and wholesome start in life, but also teach them the concept of sportsmanship and sow the seeds for a lifetime love of sports.

Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya, Rotary Club of Taksin Pattaya, and Sunbeam Hotel provide lunch and necessities for kids in far away Baan Khao Yai School

Songklod Kaewvisit

Last week members of a group of charitable organizations, including Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya led by club president Nitaya Patimasongkroh, the Rotary Club of Taksin Pattaya, and Sunbeam Hotel visited Baan Khao Yai School to provide lunch and donate necessities, toys and dolls to the children.

Sunbeam Hotel gives the kids cookies and fruits.

The school has been selected to receive patronage from Her Majesty Queen Sirikit.

Baan Khao Yai School is situated in Tambon Pluangthong, Amphur Borthong in Chonburi Province. This remote school is situated in a rural valley on the border that connects 5 provinces: Chonburi, Rayong, Chantaburi, Chacherngsao, and Srakaew. The three year old road is the only channel to get to the school. Before that there was no road or proper transport for the locals and students to use. Chaiyuth Muangkaew is the director of the school, which has 15 teachers and 600 students.

Members of Rotary Club of Taksin-Pattaya distribute the goods to kids.

Sunbeam Hotel and Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya co-organized a lunch for the students. The youngsters were treated to noodles, fruits, cookies, and plenty of ice cream. Sports equipment was presented to the kids and the Rotary Club of Taksin-Pattaya brought a water cooler and a water-pumping machine to the school. The club also passed out toys and dolls received from the children of the U.S. soldiers in Japan to be donated to these students.

Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya provides lunch for the kids.

School director Chaiyuth acknowledged how lucky the children were to get these donations from clubs and associations that had made the effort to travel all the way to the school. “Some of the gifts are surely the most expensive things the children have ever received in their lives, since they all come from very poor families whose parents work in the fields. The school tries hard to improve their living standard but we still need qualified teachers for the students,” said Chaiyuth.

Nitaya Patimasongkroh presents the lunch funds to Chaiyuth Muangkaew, director of the Baan Khao Yai School.

“We recently received an old bus from the Ministry of Transport and it just barely meets our needs. Some students travel over 10 kilometers back and forth from their homes to school,” said the director.

The kids say, “Thanks for the help!”

Chaiyuth said the school is getting into a better shape since there have been many kind-hearted people from different organizations who have donated necessities for the school. He added the school now needs computers, which would allow the students to connect to the outside world via the Internet.