Annual SOS Rice project kicks off for 2004

Crime to be solved at Garden International School

Youth for Youth Music Festival kicks off at the Horseshoe Point Resort & Country Club

Annual SOS Rice project kicks off for 2004

Suchada Tupchai

SOS Rice committee members and local charity organizations recently announced the beginning of the annual project to collect rice and raise funds for the region’s children.

Anant Angwisai (right), past chairman of Region 2 Department of Prosecutions presents Sophin Thappajug, managing director of the Diana Group & Associate Court Judge with a certificate of appreciation for her company’s continuous support in the SOS Rice project over the years.

Sanga Kijsamrej, committee president and member announced the project will begin December 1 the setting up of donation points around the city whereby residents are encouraged to donate a bag of rice for the needy.

Press conference members (L to R), Premrudee Jittiwithikarn representing the YWCA (Bangkok-Pattaya branch), Suwat Paephiromrat, president Pattaya Schools Association, Father Bunjong Chaiya, director of the Pattaya Redemptorist Orphanage, Sanga Kijsamrej, SOS committee president 2003, Sophin Thappajug, managing director of the Diana Group & Associate Court Judge, Jaran Jittiwithikarn, SOS Rice board member, Nares Petcharat, PDG Lion International District 310C (2002-2003) and project advisor to SOS Rice announce the upcoming activities.

Now in its seventh year, the project was started by Belgian national, Didier Frere to help collect rice for the children of Pattaya orphanage, then under the guidance of Father Ray Brennan.

Nitaya Patimasongkroh (left), YWCA president Bangkok Pattaya branch receives a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the YWCA members from Anant Angwisai, past chairman of Region 2 Department of prosecutions.

This year has special meaning for the project because of Father Ray’s passing and the goal is to raise over 500,000 baht worth of food and cash for the city’s poor and underprivileged.

Two sprightly young children from the Pattaya Orphanage. The Orphanage is among the main beneficiaries of the SOS Rice campaign.

Local businesses urged that the project should be moved up one month earlier to enable the project to reach its goal.

Crime to be solved at Garden International School

“How could it happen?” they asked. Set in beautiful countryside with a lovely atmosphere and great students, GIS was the scene of a most terrible crime! The principal awoke one morning to find her car full of jelly and cream!

Luckily students of the GIS science club were on hand to help in solving the case. It will take a little time (maybe 6 weeks) to carry out all of the experiments needed to find the criminal mastermind behind this crime.

GID crime solving students make plaster casts of the shoe prints left by the culprit.

Their first step (so to speak) was to search the grounds for any evidence. Using their excellent investigative skills they managed to locate some footprints! It was important to ensure the prints were not destroyed so they made plaster casts of the shoe print.

By measuring the prints they were able to eliminate a number of staff from the suspect list (“No” I hear you say but how could such wonderful staff be suspects?). The students have begun to close the net on the culprit (suggested punishments have been to send them to a dessert island). During the coming weeks students will carry out flame tests, fingerprint analysis and microscope analysis to catch this fiend!

Who will it be?

Youth for Youth Music Festival kicks off at the Horseshoe Point Resort & Country Club

Suchada Tupchai

The opening of the Y4Y Music Festival got off to a good start at the Horseshoe Point Resort & Country Club on Wednesday with the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra jamming with local musicians.

Members of the world-class UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra played a mini-concert with the Three Kingdoms Park providing the backdrop.

The festival, which took place over 5 days, was a major musical achievement and a success for the region and Pattaya. Set in the Three Kingdoms Park and Horseshoe Point Resort in Pattaya, the first four days of the festival gave aspiring Thai musicians opportunities to get a glimpse behind the scene of the world-class UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra.

The opening rehearsal with its great music talents from around the world was a great success. However, the highlight of the festival was the finale concert by the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra at the National Theater in Bangkok on Sunday.

HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana, a great appreciator of the orchestra, having seen its performances in the Verbier Festival & Academy in the past two years, presided as the royal guest of honor on her 80th birthday.

The musical camp with more than 70 local musicians came together over the 3 nights providing all in attendance the opportunity to interact with musicians from around the globe and allowed them to perform in the festival to raise funds for needy people in Thailand.