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Final Call - Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Pub Night
Mike Franklin
Bid for a ‘lot’ in the auction, buy some grand raffle tickets and
support the final event of the 2006 Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity
Drive at Jameson’s this Saturday 16th September. This is the Pub Night of
the Year, packed with live entertainment and spot prizes, huge prizes to
be won in the grand raffle and fantastic items of sports memorabilia, and
other lots, up for bids in the auction. Our professional auctioneer, Eddy
Henheffer, is back and his skilful and very entertaining performance alone
is worth coming for.
 This
1966 England World Cup Final Team Photo, signed by surviving 10 players,
plus separate picture and signature from Bobby Moore, the England Captain,
separate signed photo of Manager Alf Ramsey and Coach Harold Shepherdson,
match day program, and ticket for the day, donated by Mike Axford, will be
highly sought after at the Jesters 2006 Pub Night at Jameson’s this Saturday
16th September.
In a preview interview with Eddy on PMTV, he selected and talked about just
a few of the many items on offer that he felt would be significant fund
raisers and exciting to auction.
Here they are….
1966 England World Cup Final Team Photo: signed by surviving 10
players, plus separate picture and signature from Bobby Moore, the England
Captain, separate signed photo of Manager Alf Ramsey and Coach Harold
Shepherdson, match day program, and ticket for the day. Authenticated;
Donated by Mike Axford
Muhammad Ali, Heavyweight Champion of the World 1964-70. Feb 1975-1978 and
Nov 1978-79: Four excellent photographs in a frame with a Muhammad
Ali signature; Authenticated; Donated by Mike Axford
Maradona Signed Shirt: One of the greatest football players ever. Led
Argentina to the World Cup in 1986. Authenticated; Donated by Mike Axford
George Best Signed Shirt: Played football for Manchester United and
Northern Ireland. An icon in the Sixties, known as the fifth Beatle. The
shirt is a replica from Manchester United European Cup win in 1968, when
George Best was also voted both British and European Footballer of the Year.
Authenticated; Donated by Mike Axford.
Joe Montana signed football: One of the best quarterbacks of all time
playing for the San Francisco 49ers he led them to 4 Super Bowl victories
(1982, 1985, 1989, 1990). Authenticated; donated by Mark Westendorf.
Siam Country Club Golf Family membership: Donated by Mark Garcia.
Canadian Flag signed by Canadian Winter Olympics Team 2006: Including Cindy
Klassen who won 5 medals. Authenticated; donated by Murray Kerr
Antique Chinese Cabinet donated by Ursula’s Antiques.
Grand Raffle Prizes include:
Phuket week long, 6 nights DTC Travel
Samui package 3 days, 2 nights for 2 DTC Travel
River Kwai trip 2 days, overnight for 4 Judi McNamara
Swiss Air to Singapore for 1 BKK/Singapore return for 1
Chaophya Park Hotel, Bangkok 2 nights in deluxe suite
Royal Cliff Beach Hotel, Pattaya in mini-suite for 2 nights
Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok one night stay + extra vouchers
I-Pod Nano!
Numchai voucher (10,000 baht)
Pinnacle Jomtien Resort and Spa for 2 nights in deluxe room with breakfast
Logan Place, Koh Chang
Dusit Fitness Family membership
…and many, many more.
The Jesters Pub Night at Jameson’s, this Saturday 16th September, starts
at 6 p.m. with Mike Gerrard on-stage. Erik and Robert arrive back from their
marathon 417 km bicycle ride around 7 p.m., and disco renditions from DJs
Paul, Andy and Rick follow throughout the evening together with a live band.
The Auction and Grand Raffle highlight the action, so it really is an
evening not to be missed.
The Jesters 2006 Pub Night – at Jameson’s this Saturday 16th September.
Students jumped, ran and cheered their way through a school’s colourful sports day
Mark Beales
Marketing Coordinator
Assumption College Sriracha
Assumption College Sriracha, near Pattaya, held its sports gymkhana
recently. Various track and field events were held including the high
jump, shot putt and 1,500 metres.
 On
your marks, go! High school students start the 1,500 metres.
Students were divided up into seven differently-coloured teams. Each
team gathered to loudly cheer, clap and sing for their side during the
two-day event.
Every student took part, whether it was in the relay races, field events
or by sitting in the stands and cheering on their team.
Brother Director Surasit Sukchai said, “This year’s sports day was a
wonderful success. Each student practised hard to make sure their
contribution to the day counted.”
Assumption’s light blue team took top honours, winning a trophy for the
most points, and for the best marching parade.
ACS is the largest school on the Eastern Seaboard and many of its 4,000
students come from Pattaya. Assumption runs English Programmes in most
year groups. For more details visit www.acs.ac.th
A high school student
clears the high jump.
World RoboCup 2006 Junior Champion studying at The Regent’s School, Pattaya
Miss P. Choochai
‘A Robotics genius’, Karol Pauchly has been awarded a scholarship at The
Regent’s School, Pattaya. He has come all the way from Slovakia to study at
this prestigious school in Thailand.
 Karol
Pauchly (third from right) being awarded his first prize at ‘The RoboCup
Junior 2006’ in Bremen, Germany.
Karol Pauchly arrived at The Regent’s School, Pattaya triumphant from his
victory at the ‘World Championship RoboCup Junior 2006’ in Bremen, Germany.
RoboCup has become the most important Robot challenge in the world; the
Formula 1 of Robotics. This year was the 10th anniversary, which brought
together roughly 2,500 scientists from 36 nations around the world.
The official opening of the RoboCup 2006 took place on Wednesday the 14th of
June, the mayors of Bremen and Osaka, the president and vice-president of
the RoboCup Federation and other dignitaries were all there this year to
support and present the awards to the winning scientists.
The RoboCup Junior is a project-oriented educational initiative that
sponsors local, regional and international robotic events for young
students. It is designed to introduce RoboCup to primary and secondary
school children. The focus in the junior league is on education.
Karol Pauchly entered three divisions this year, winning first place in
RoboCup Junior Rescue. His robots were all made from Lego; the challenge in
the ‘Rescue’ category was to race to rescue victims from artificial disaster
scenarios, varying in complexity from line-following on a flat surface to
negotiating paths through obstacles on uneven terrain.
YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center hands out 513 study grants
Vimolrat Singnikorn
Nittaya Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center on
August 24 presided over a presentation of 513 study grants to needy
students at a ceremony held at Pattaya School No 2.
 Mayor
Niran Wattanasartsathorn presents awards to the ballet dancers who put
on a show at the awards.
The scholarships, donated under the Foster Child Care Program, were for
students from the 10 Pattaya schools and the schools under the
jurisdiction of Chonburi Region 3 Education Department, totaling 45
schools in all.
A total of 513 students who had shown promising results received the
grants in the ceremony that was presided over by Mayor Niran
Wattanasartsathorn.
YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center had begun in 1990 to provide grants to
students from low-income families. Funds are donated by organizations
such as Pattaya Sports Club, Rotary Club of Pattaya Marina, Rotary Club
of Jomtien-Pattaya, Rotary Club of Taksin-Pattaya, the Sikh Community in
Pattaya, the Soul Searchers meditation club, Luzius Metier, Mermaid’s
Dive center and a firefighter’s club in Germany, along with many others.
(Foreground) Gerry
Carpenter and Bernie Tuppin from the Pattaya Sports Club join with many
others to donate scholarships.
Nittaya Patimasongkroh
(seated center), chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya, on behalf of
many benevolent organizations and individuals, donated 513 study grants
to needy students.
Rotary Club of
Taksin-Pattaya’s president, Charles Evans, and assistant district
governor, Dieter Precourt pose with Nittaya Patimasongkroh and some of
the children who have benefited from the club’s donation.
A remarkable gift
David Hodgetts (back
right), a British benefactor from Guernsey travelled half way around the
world to bring 41,500 pounds sterling (equivalent to 2.9 million baht)
to donate to the Pattaya Orphanage.
Andrew Watson
It’s not often that I’m moved to silence, awed into insignificance,
humbled by beauty. But it happened to me last week, when for the first
time (I am ashamed to admit) I visited one of the most remarkable places
I have ever been. I kid you not. The Pattaya Orphanage is a place of
inspiring wonder, full of people doing the most amazing work and brim
full of the most delightful, friendly, smiling children. Hallelujah!
Of course I had heard of Father Ray Brennan, whose legacy is the Fr. Ray
Foundation. He is a man of local and as I discovered, increasingly
international legend. The beneficiaries are the people who need it most:
the children. I became aware that something special was about to happen
when I was greeted by Audrey Williams, a volunteer at the Orphanage for
almost a decade. You know how sometimes, you just fall easily into
conversation? Well with Audrey, it’s like that. She regaled me with
almost miraculous tales of improbably beautiful things that had happened
over the years. Looking into her eyes and listening to the passion in
her voice, it wasn’t so surprising that good things had happened. People
like Audrey, full of faith and love, make them happen.
I had been tipped off that another individual of remarkable devotion was
around. Suddenly with devout graciousness, she appeared. Mrs. Radchada
Chomjinda, better known as Khun Toy, was all charm and smiles. She has a
gentle presence which commands respect; frankly, I was already thinking
to myself, “I must come back here again soon”.
I was so enchanted that I almost forgot my reason for being in this
oasis in the centre of Pattaya. Enter another individual of great
compassion, vision and generosity; David Hodgetts, a British benefactor
from Guernsey (that may be an oxymoron; David was at pains to explain to
me that in fact, Guernsey is not part of the United Kingdom). He had
travelled half the way around the world in order to bring 41,500 pounds
sterling (equivalent to 2.9 million baht) to donate to the Pattaya
Orphanage. Wait - it gets better - David is something of an impresario
and the money was raised a few months ago from two performances of an
Opera in Guernsey, replete with none other than Jose Carreras, who by
the way, performed for free. That’s the power of the Father Ray
Foundation; I felt infused with the same compassion.
David is nobody’s fool. He became involved with the Father Ray
Foundation because he could trust that the gifts he gave would be
channelled to the right places, instead of frittered away on
‘administration’. As we sat on a grassy verge in the shadow of Father
Ray’s statue, swamped by laughing children, David explained that the
proceeds he brought with him on this occasion will be used to renew the
girls’ dormitory at the Orphanage. Maybe it was just coincidence,
perhaps it was providence; the work on the dormitory was in progress as
we spoke. More likely I thought, what was at work, was faith.
Pattaya School No 7 comes top in school sports
The opening ceremony
included all sorts of sporting demonstrations.
Narisa Nitikarn
Ten Pattaya City schools took part in the 2006 Pattaya Schools Sports,
which was held over the period August 10 to 25 at Pattaya School No 7.
Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn presided over the final day of the event,
which in addition to being athletics day was also when the prizes were
handed out.
The games were held as a selection process to choose young athletes to
participate in municipal, regional and future national level events.
Pattaya School No 7 came top in the gold medals table, and won two
trophies and many other awards.
The opening ceremony included a parade and music performances by 231
students from the 10 Pattaya schools who sang “The Final Countdown”,
followed by competitions in the 60 and 80 meter sprints, the 4 x 100
meter relay and the 8 x 50 meter relay. The events were split into two
age groups, namely the under 12s boys and girls, and the under 15s boys
and girls.
Highlight of the day was the boys’ 4 x 100 meter relay. This event was
the closest and most hard won, Pattaya School No 7 coming first with a
time of 4.15.85 minutes and only eight seconds ahead of second placed
Pattaya School No 2, who crossed the finish line in 4.28.35. Third was
Pattaya School No 10, who came home in 4.31.40.
After the games Pattaya schools director Thawatchai Rattanyu gave the
closing speech and presented the medals and trophies.
Pattaya School No 7 took most of the medals and trophies and came top in
both the boys and girls under 15s table. The school played host this
year and the teams showed a sense of unity, which helped in taking most
of the honors.
All the schools
participated in the beautiful parade during the opening ceremony.
And they’re off!
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