Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon
presides over the second planning meeting for HM the King’s local
birthday festivities.
Manoon Makpol
Pattaya officials continue to add events to their
proposed 10-day celebration of HM the King’s 84th birthday.
Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon presided over
the second planning meeting Oct. 13 for the Dec. 1-10 festivities.
He said the celebration will begin Dec. 1 with an
ordination for 85 monks to mark the start of the King’s 85th year Dec.
5. A “walk-run” will be held on Dec. 5 with a ceremony later that night
at Bali Hai Pier. Also slated was a parade on Dec. 5.
The events add to a slate of activities outlined at
the first planning meeting in June. At that time, Mayor Itthiphol
Kunplome said nine events would be held in early December, including a
commemorative coin contest, an exhibit called “99 Photographs of the
Rama IX Period,” a 48-hour English-language lesson, the 4th “World for
Friendship and Peace” meeting, a digital photography training workshop,
a city photo competition, and a “warm family” project. The final two
would be a “good fathers” project and a “language triathlon.”
For more information, call 038-253-220.
