Our Pub Night, the Grand Finale, is coming your way this
Saturday, the 20th. And what a night it is shaping up to be! We have a team
of professional people to entertain you for this gala night, including our
auctioneer Eddie Henheffer, who hails from a famous family of Canadian
auctioneers. He has cast his eye over our list of auction lots, 25 so far
and maybe more, and has given it his qualified nod of approval.
Representing
Care for Kids Charity Drive 2002 Platinum Sponsors, Aom (Tawan Thonglim)
presents Jesters MC President Lewis Underwood with a cheque for 100,000 baht
during last year’s pub night.
Topping the list are the two signed Beckham footballs and
a Man U shirt, and much more as well, including other autographed sports
memorabilia from professional golfers, cricketers, rugby players and F.1
drivers, et al.
There are also works of art and decorative items, such as
paintings (watercolors and oil), antiques, a bejeweled Buddha figurine and
other fine items, including jewelry that will be of particular interest to
the ladies.
Andy
Francis (left) and Neil Smith kept the night buzzing as MC’s at last
year’s pub night at Shenanigans.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The evening will
get underway at 6 p.m. with Paul Jackson, professional DJ, spinning the
discs, while our squad of Grand Raffle ticket sellers plies the floor
flogging books of raffle tickets for 500 baht.
Ray,
Diane, Rick and Lou proudly display their new acquisitions, framed paintings
from the kids at the Fountain of Life at last year’s C4K final้.
Andy Francis, another pro DJ, with rugby commentator Neil
Smith, will join Paul at 7 p.m. to start the fun and issuing of spot prizes.
The improvisation will ensue when they ask the crowd for unusual, sometimes
embarrassing, items, odd bits of clothing or even stunts or performances.
The winners will receive vouchers donated by various businesses in our
community, as well as other surprises.
Bancha
(centre) and a buncha beautiful ladies enjoy last year’s pub night.
The imaginative trio of comperes will be doing their
thing, interspersed with the auction, throughout the evening up until 10:30
p.m., when it will be time for the drawing of the Grand Raffle.
The top 5 prizes for our Grand Raffle are airline
packages, including our perennial first prize: two tickets Sydney-Bangkok
return courtesy of British Airways/Qantas. Next on the list is a Phuket-Bangkok
return package for 2 provided by DTC Travel, followed by 2 tickets
Singapore-Bangkok return on Swiss Air; a Samui package for 2 with 2
night’s hotel accommodation courtesy of the Travel Clinic, and one ticket
Hong Kong-Bangkok return on Emirates.
Last
year Eddy Henheffer kept the boisterous crowd entertained while selling off
the nights prized items.
Additional prizes include hotel stays, a gym membership
at the Dusit, and a myriad of vouchers for jewelry, beauty salon treatments,
scuba diving courses and dinners for 2 at leading restaurants, etc.
We will draw only the top 10 from our Grand Raffle prizes
on center stage as our list is now at 33 and still growing. The other prizes
will indeed be drawn on the night off to the side, and the winners’ names
posted on a blackboard behind the stage, while the band sets up. Winners’
names will also be published in Pattaya Mail.
Then it will be time to trip the lights fantastic with
the live music segment of our evening, courtesy of Pop’s Pattaya
All-Stars. And from then on, it’s rock n’ roll and dancing till the cows
come home.
Last stop for the Jesters Care for Kids Express is coming
your way this weekend. Be sure to catch it at Shenanigans on Saturday 20
from 6 p.m. to as late as you want to be!
Excelling
students are Anwesha Roy Paladhi (left) and Anurag Garg (right).
Outstanding
students from left to right: Liisa Toompuu, Andre Nakkurt, Merle Laur, and
Neli Ivanova.
