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Community Happenings is an opportunity for all clubs, businesses, hotels, restaurants and entertainment outlets to inform the Pattaya Mail’s readers what new “happenings” are coming up. Send us your happening by email to: [email protected] or by fax 038 427 596.

Announcements

The Rotary Pattaya Marina will be hosting 2 charity events this June: A bowling tournament will be held on Saturday June 24 for skilled and unskilled players at P.S. Bowl, Pattaya. Start of games at 8.15 a.m. Official opening 10 a.m. End of games 3 p.m. Awards and prizes 3.15 p.m. A Petanque Contest will be held at La Guinguette Siam Country Club Soi 27. Saturday June 24, the preliminaries, and Sunday 25, the finals. Start of games at 9 a.m. End of games 3 p.m. Awards and prizes 3.15 p.m. For registration and info please contact Dr Olivier Meyer Tel. 038 723 521 (business hours) fax. 038 723 522 or email at [email protected]

Mabuhay Diving Club needs diver-volunteers to do underwater clean-up of Pattaya Bay every Saturday. All equipment, boat, food, etc., provided. Please call Steve at 0-4725-3230.

Clubs

The Pattaya City Expats Club will have will have Mo Tejani, an author as its main speaker on Sunday June 25. Everyone welcome to come and hear Mo speak about his life’s experience. He is one of the more fascinating foreigners living in Thailand, an Indian Muslim by ancestry, but a man of many worlds by life experience. July 2, we will hear more about the new airport and the proposed opening date. That Sunday is also the Annual General Meeting, and voting for the new members of the board. Bring your discount cards with you to be eligible to vote. All welcome. The PCEC meetings are held every Sunday at Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant at the Amari Resort on North Pattaya Beach Road starting at 10.30 a.m. Buffet breakfast is available from 9.30 a.m. To find out more about the Sunday and mid-week activities go to www. pattayacityexpatsclub.com

The BCCT will visit to Suvarnabhumi Airport on Monday June 26, at 8.15 a.m. (sharp) departure by bus from BCCT office. The cost of the visit is THB 500 per person including transport, coffee and VAT. Numbers are limited to 40 participants and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details contact [email protected] Members please book on-line www. bccthai.com Non-members please email [email protected]

Dining

Amor Restaurant, Pattayaland Soi 3. South Pattaya is now offering a Traditional English Afternoon Tea from 5 - 7 p.m. daily. For more information call 038 710680 or visit http://www. amorrestaurant.com

Art Café Pattaya will light their Gyros grill this coming Friday and Saturday night and serve their hearty and delicious Greek Gyros and much more, all you can eat for 320 baht net – including the original ouzo at the end of the meal. Art Caf้e is on Soi 16, Naklua Road. For more information or reservations: 038 367652 or mobile: 01 8326031.

Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set menu crabmeat salad with marinated zucchini and eggplant tatar. Pork tenderloin in puff pastry with porcini mushroom sauce and summer vegetables. Pattaya 2nd Road in front of Ruen Thai Restaurant. For reservation (038) 723 660, Fax (038) 723 659, e-mail: [email protected]. For more information: www.restaurant-pattaya.com

The Dusit Resort, Pattaya’s Peak restaurant specialty in June is the unique and rare abalone. For times & reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2276. The Bay gives you a chance to have a taste of Italy’s pizza variations with its Pizza Degustation in July! Chef Giuseppe Zanotti jazzes up the toppings to create two best loved pizzas from each Italian region for one delectable full-sized meal. Try pizza with Parma ham and rocket salad or wild mushroom and truffle pizza from Central Italy. For times & reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2270. Saturday Night BBQ Buffet at The Bay a wide assortment of meat and seafood to go on the grill and carving stations. Cascade Café is offering World Cup Sandwiches! Located at the Dolphin Roundabout 240/2 Pattaya Beach Road. For reservations and further details, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2149-50.

Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya recently launched ‘Eat to the Beat’, the hotel’s main dining attraction for dinner at Starz Diner. To mark the launch of the new buffet, Eat to the Beat will have an introductory price of THB 550++ per person from Sunday to Friday and THB 700++ per person on Saturdays for a limited period only. Located on 429 Pattaya Beach Road. For more details call 038 428755.

Jameson’s the Irish Pub has a host of Daily Specials and famous British beers. From 2nd Road turn right at Bangkok Bank and follow Soi Sukrudee (Soi A.R.) until you round the bend; email: [email protected] Website: www. jamesons-pattaya.com

For information & reservations to No.43, Italian Bistro, Kanary Bay Rayong, please call 038-804 844.

Mercure Hotel Pattaya presents P&P all you can eat pasta and pizza at the Cappuccino Terrace every Wednesday night. Soi 15, 2nd Road, South Pattaya. For more details call 038 425 050.

The Montien Hotel, Pattaya continues their Theme Buffet Evenings: 2nd Road, Central Pattaya. For more details & reservations please call 038-428155 ext 1620, 1621 e-mail; [email protected]

Entertainment

Pattaya residents will have a chance to see some World Cup history, donated by Phil Ross, now on display at the ‘Windmill Club’, Soi Diamond, for the duration of the World Cup Finals which can be viewed on a 72 inch screen during their nightly World Cup parties. For more info call David Hamilton 06 543 5205 or Phil Ross 09 601 9920.

A La Turca Restaurant has recently opened their second branch opposite 7-11 on Walking Street. Buy 1 beer and get 1 free during Happy Hour from 5 - 7 p.m. and try some of their delicious cocktails, buy 2 get 1 free, made by Alfie, their professional bartender, trained in London.

Enjoy live music and entertainment at Ray’s Place jazz bar at the Mercure Hotel Pattaya. Happy Hour every day from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pattaya Second Road Soi 15, email [email protected]

The Moon River Pub continues their draft beer promotion. For every liter of draft beer ordered the guest will receive one stamp in his or her “Beer Card”. Collect nine stamps and get one liter of beer free. In front of the Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road.

The new taste of entertainment at The Tide Resort begins with the ‘Club Sea’ the recently opened lobby bar. A perfect hangout with food, drinks, live jazz, and easy listening music open from 7 p.m. - midnight. For more information please call 038 399200.

All World Cup Matches with English commentary can be viewed at the Sportsman Pub & Restaurant in Soi 13, half way down between Beach Road & Second Road.

Events

The art exhibition ‘Chaos’ by the Nanajittang Group will be opening at Gallery Opium on Saturday June 24 at 7 p.m. 315/26 Thepprasit Road M12, Banglamung, Pattaya City. Exhibition closes July 9.

Charity Family Beach Party at the Rabbit Resort on Dongtan Beach, July 1, from 6.30 p.m. Live music, great BBQ in a super buffet + soft drinks, games, raffle and a chance to bid on a unique piece of art created by the children at Ban Jing Jai. The PILC and BPH are using the proceeds to set up a dental/health care program for the orphanage. For tickets please contact Reina Rances: 09 044 59 20, Helle Rants้n: 01 63 68 165 or Rabbit Resort: 038- 303- 303-4. Cost 800 baht for adults and 400 baht for children.

The Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6 invites all friends and customers to a joint celebration the Queen Victoria’s 5th Birthday and the Charity Club’s 2nd birthday on July 1, 2006. Free bar snack from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Lucky draw prizes throughout the day. 5 p.m. All-U-Can-Eat Carvery at the special price of 200 baht and live music from the San Miguel Band. Proceeds from selected drinks and the carvery will be donated to the Charity Club of Pattaya.

Visiting the Past is an art exhibition opening on July 1, at 5 p.m. featuring works from Marianne Hvass Kure, Wakako Yamamoto and Lucia Nascimento at the Rotunda Gallery 195 Surawong Rd, Bangkok. Tel: 02 2331731.

The 4th of July Picnic celebration this year will be held on Saturday July 1, at the Bangkok Pattana School located on Sukhumvit Soi 105, just off the Bangna Trad Highway, from 2 -8 p.m. ending with a great fireworks display. Entrance fee is only 100 baht and children under 12 are free. American beer, hamburgers, hot dogs, bar-b-q ribs, apple pie, ice cream plus more are on the menu at low prices, plus live bands, clowns for the kids and games for everyone.

Promotions

Asian University proudly presents the Summer University of 2006: “An Asian Experience in Thailand”. During this three-week summer course from July 9 - 29, 75 students from a dozen different countries (mainly Europeans) will attend courses on Asian Business related topics and visit local industries. The participants will also learn about Thai culture. At the weekends the students will have the opportunity to travel in Thailand and elsewhere. A few places remain for applications from international and Thai students and recent graduates. For further information please call 038 754 450 2877 or have a look at www.asianust.ac.th/summeruniversity

Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya celebrates the auspicious occasion of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Sixtieth Anniversary of Accession to the Throne, by donating THB 60 to the Royal Development Foundation for every THB 1,000 our guests spend on rooms in June 2006.

Door 2 Door is offering a special promotion for June, receive 10% discount from the Paradise Restaurant, 215/62-63, Second Road & also another 10% discount from the Continental Restaurant, 315/158, Thappraya Road. To receive your free Door 2 Door Menu just call 038 720 222 and a friendly driver will deliver a copy to you, or visit www.door2doorpattaya.com