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Yamaha Pattaya Young Talent contest gears up for 5th year
Contest organizer Alisa
Phanthusak (2nd right), Darika Phanthusak (3rd left), director of Yamaha
Thailand Music School, Pattaya, Jintana Wittana, music consultant for the
Yamaha Music School, and Isika Songserm (2nd left) from Central Festival
Pattaya Beach, announce the 5th Yamaha Pattaya Young Talent.
Warunya Thongrod
Signups are open for the fifth Yamaha Pattaya Young Talent
competition, giving youngsters and teens chances to win cash prizes, music
lessons and notoriety.
Contest organizer Alisa Phanthusak and Yamaha Music School consultant
Jintana Wittana announced details of the annual contest at Central Festival
Pattaya Beach Jan. 12. Child and teenage singers and youth bands can file
applications until Feb. 2 to join the event at the school on Third Road in
Naklua Tuesday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. or weekends from 3-8 p.m.
Applications an also be e-mailed to
[email protected].
A large crowd gathers to
watch the amazing performances during the press conference.
Categories cover Thai folks songs for children under 12
and for teens, modern Thai and international songs for the same age groups,
band performances, and a sixth category for dance routines.
The winner of each contest will receive HRH Princess Soamsawalee Cup with
cash prize.
The first qualifying rounds will begin on Feb. 2 at Yamaha Thailand School
Pattaya with the final qualifying round on March 3 at the Tiffany Theater.
“I have watched every year and the youths participating become more and more
developed,” Jintana said. “I wish them the best in this contest.”
BurlesQue performs for the
conference opening.
I.D.C., winner of J-Pop and
K-Pop Yamaha Pattaya Young Talent 2012 perform at the conference closing.
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Pattaya teachers, students join monks
in Bangkok pilgrimage
Education Department Director Wannapa Wannasri
heads a preparation meeting for local teachers and students to join the
final leg of a Buddhist pilgrimage through seven provinces.
Vittaya Yoondorn
Teachers and students from Pattaya’s 11 public schools will join more than
1,000 monks in the final leg of a Buddhist pilgrimage through seven provinces.
Education Department Director Wannapa Wannasri hosted a preparation meeting for
Saturday’s excursion at Bangkok’s Bangwuay School. Both teachers and students
have been invited to attend and sprinkle flowers, rose petals and holy water
along the route of the sojourning monks.
Citizens sprinkle marigold petals
on the rose way during the “Dhammachai Dhutanga” pilgrimage. (Photo from
www.dmc.tv)
The “Dhammachai Dhutanga” pilgrimage is being held for the
second time, with monks walking on a rose-petal covered route through Pathum
Thani, Ayutthaya, Suphanburi, Nonthaburi, Samut Sakhon, Nakhon Pathom, and
Bangkok, a distance of 446 kilometers.
Teachers from Pattaya schools go
over final preparations for the event.
A smaller number of monks participated in a similar walk at
the end of 2011 to raise funds and bring relief to flood victims.
This year, the walk is described as a trek to allow monks to rid themselves of
lust and follow tradition. Buddhist followers along the route will offer alms,
food, lamps and other items each day. This year’s trek began Jan. 2.
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Students from Regents School continue their good work
The students leave their mark.
Derek Franklin
For many years the Regents School has played a big part in supporting
local charitable organizations here in Pattaya. The Father Ray Foundation has
received much support, including regularly welcoming the youngsters from the
Father Ray Day Care Center to the Regents Early Learning Center.
Even the teachers get involved.
The international students have also visited the School for
the Blind and the Vocational School for People with Disabilities, but a lot of
their work has been at the Father Ray Children’s Village.
A brand new sports court is under construction at the Village, sponsored jointly
by the Regents School and Jesters Care for Kids and the annual Picnic in the
Park will take place there in May.
The latest group of students to visit the Village arrived with buckets of paint,
brushes and rollers and spent three day painting the boundary wall from a drab
grey to a dazzling white, complete with the school’s emblem.
Showing the students a different side to Pattaya and getting them involved in
charity work will go towards ensuring they grow into responsible members of
society.
It’s a very hot day but the
students are working very hard.
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Teeing it up to Care for Kids
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2013
Lewis Underwood
The overwhelming majority of the Jesters Care for Kids fund-raising
comes from corporate and individual sponsorship, which allows us to effectively
provide disadvantaged children with safe environments, educational options via
scholarships and specialized schooling for the disabled. Last year 88% of the
6,635,663 baht raised, came from sponsorship.
Also in this category are charity golf tournaments. In 2012, we were benefited
by 3 such events, all of which came in as major sponsors.
The Canadian Jackalope Open has been with us since 2008 as a Diamond Sponsor, or
400,000 baht donor, and by request; their entire donation goes to the Camillian
kids living with HIV.
And now, since last year The Links Hotel on Soi Buakaow has joined in with ‘The
Links Challenge’ and was a Platinum-plus Sponsor, having raised 121,270 baht.
Still later in the year, Lotus Valley Golf Resort in Chachoengsao also entered
the fray with their ‘Lotus Valley Charity Classic’ and were also a Platinum-plus
Sponsor raising 166,000 baht.
Together, these 3 charity golf tournaments provided us with 687,270 baht last
year which was a great boon for the Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2012.
Now in the New Year, the first up and right around the corner, is ‘The 2013
Links Challenge’ on Thursday, February 14 at Khao Kheow Country Club.
The format is a 2-man scramble with team prizes awarded to 1st through 4th
places, with the first prize pair getting two sets of Callaway irons! There are
also technical prizes for every hole!
The prize-giving ceremony and buffet dinner will be back at The Links Hotel, all
for 2000 baht, which includes caddy and green fees and food.
If you would like to sign up for this fun tournament and/or be a sponsor, please
contact them at [email protected]
or call them at 084 782 4582.
We hope to see you there too!
For more info about us, please visit
www.care4kids.info and
www.facebook.com/jesterscare.kids
Events: Children’s Fair is Sunday, September 8th and
GPN is Saturday, September 21st at Amari Orchid
[email protected]
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Jesters donate drinking
water system to ATCC
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2013
Some of the children pose for a commemorative photo
in the garden.
Bernie Tuppin
Only one year ago, Supagon “Ja” Noja revisited a plot of land on Soi
Pornchai Withee in Nongprue to reopen the Anti-Trafficking and Child Abuse
Center. The format was the same as previously: start small and grow.
A few small buildings were erected with help from the children were soon
followed by a kitchen, sala, offices, toilets, meeting hall, and more
accommodation units. Vegetable gardens, chicken coop, and shade trees soon
appeared to give the property a real rural feel.
The center now houses 35 children (27 boys and 8 girls) with 4 staff to care for
them. Additional land has been acquired recently with plans for still more
accommodation and amenities. This has been a wonderful achievement in a short
time span and the credit goes to Khun Ja and his kids, who do most of the
construction after school and on weekends.
A recent visit by Woody and me, both from the Jesters Care for Kids, noticed
that one basic necessity was missing: clean drinking water. A chat with Ja, a
phone call to Bank of ETPC [water filtration specialists], a donation from
Jesters, and just like that the problem was solved. The Center now has a modern
water filtering system to supply as much clean drinking water as they will ever
require.
Please also visit us at www.care4kids.info
and
www.facebook.com/jesterscare.kids.
Our events: Children’s Fair is Sunday, September 8th and
Gala Party Night is Saturday, September 21st at Amari Orchid
[email protected]
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