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The Jesters Children’s Fair & Family Day is coming soon
Mike Franklin
In three weeks, on Sunday 10th September, it will be the 2006 Jesters
Children’s Fair and Family Day at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range,
North Pattaya. A guaranteed day of fun and games, and this year the
children’s fair will be bigger and better than ever. Action packed
entertainment with many new and exciting events for the whole family.
 Pooh
is hanging out with some of the great prizes for this year’s fair.
For the past seven years the Children’s fairs have been a huge success, and
this will be the fifth consecutive year that the Diana Group has generously
hosted the fair by making available the entire Diana Driving Range facility
to stage the event.
The activities for the many fair-goers we expect to see on the day include
plenty of new and exciting games and lots of prizes for the kids. Many
challenging kids’ games will be introduced this year and numerous schools
will participate by providing children’s entertainment, including arts and
crafts and face painting. More about that in a couple of weeks when Karyn
Walker will be giving a detailed run down on the Children’s activities.
A lovely giant Pooh Bear,
shown here with the ‘Double A’ Logistics team who sponsored it, is searching
for a large honey pot and a new home to go to and will take center stage in
the Children’s raffle.
In addition, there will be live bands, famous
entertainers, and clowns distributing brightly colored balloons. The 2006
Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ T shirt is soon to be on sale, for many to add to
their existing collection. The ever-popular climbing wall will be there,
rides with the lovely Horseshoe Point ponies, a Taekwondo martial arts
demonstration and a superb range of your favorite Thai, Eastern and Western
foods. New this year is Candy Floss for the kids with 10 different flavours
to choose from.
The Fair will feature unique handicraft vendors from throughout Southeast
Asia displaying and selling their wares. Bangkok Pattaya Hospital Ambulance
unit will be on station all day to take care of any mishaps, and the Duty
Nurse will be available for free blood pressure checks.
The famous Children’s Raffle has lots of great prizes sponsored by Pattaya
Sports Club and generous individuals. Prizes this year include Color TVs and
DVD players, Mountain bike, i-audio DVD speaker system, Sony MP3 Flash
Memory Walkman, Canon color printer/copier/scanner, R/C Helicopter, Wireless
high band microphone system, Dome 3.5 tent, Casio keyboard, an Index ‘full
face’ crash helmet, a Yamaha acoustic guitar, toys from Brown Farm and more.
A lovely giant Pooh Bear, searching for a large honey pot and a new home to
go to, takes center stage in the Children’s raffle. Pooh Bear kindly
sponsored by the ‘Double A’ Logistics team.
After the Children’s Raffle Draw at 3.30 p.m. comes the action-packed
showstopper: the special Kids Tug ‘O’ War, and more live music. So, lots of
reasons for the Children and the Family to be there for the day.
All Children’s Fair proceeds go to the 2006 Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity
Drive beneficiaries, helping under-privileged children in the area, many of
whom will be there from the Fountain of Life and Ban Jing Jai to enjoy the
Fair with us.
This year, due to the rolling success of the eight previous Jesters ‘Care
for Kids’ Charity Drives, we have more beneficiaries to add to our
established list that includes the Fountain of Life Center, Pattaya
Redemptorist School for the Blind, the Eastern Child Welfare and Protection
Institute at Huay Pong, Happiness Camps, the ‘Next Step’ Program with Khun
Em in his second year at university, Khao Bai Sri School in Sattahip, Rayong
Training Center and Thap Lamu and Sanga Ou Schools in the South of Thailand.
We have added the Ban Jing Jai Orphanage (a major project completed this
year), the Sriphong Phukaoluan Foundation, through which we are providing a
5 year scholarship for an orphaned 9-year-old boy named Eckalot in a joint
venture with Unilever, plus 2 more school lunch programs at Wat Samithhitham
and Koh Phi Phi.
Show your support for the Jesters Children’s Fair & Family Day by displaying
the bumper sticker shown on this page. Bumper stickers and the color posters
featured in Pattaya Mail are available at the Pattaya Mail office,
Jameson’s, TQ Beach Road, Viking Beachcomber, Brown Farm, the Diana Inn and
the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range. By displaying these items you will
be contributing towards the success of the Jesters Children’s Fair on Sunday
September 10th at the Diana Garden Resort & Driving Range - a big event, a
great day out and a fun day for all the Family to enjoy. Don’t miss the
biggest, and best yet, Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Children’s Fair.
Be there, and don’t forget to say hello to the big guy, Jester Kevin, he is
the one who puts the Fair together on the day for us all to enjoy. Come and
see me, with Bernie Tuppin and our team, at the Children’s Raffle stall.
There will be around 80 stalls at the fair and a few are still available,
but going fast. Details and a booking form are on the web site at
[email protected] plus all the other information about this year’s
Jesters Charity Drive.
Make a note too, of the Jesters Pub Night at Jameson’s on Saturday 16th
September, when marathon cyclists Erik & Robert will arrive back after their
417 Km sponsored ride from Hat Lek at the Cambodian border. Fabulous items
of memorabilia from many famous sports personalities will be auctioned and
the Grand raffle drawn.
But first, comes the Jesters Children’s Fair & Family Day on Sunday 10th
September. See you there.
Clowns distributing brightly
colored balloons are always kept busy during the fun.
Asian University sails at Hua Hin Regatta
The weekend of sailing at the Hua-Hin Regatta brought
home some mixed results despite the wet and very windy conditions. Asian
U’s sailors were proud to successfully complete the races, as many of
the other competitors failed to do so due to the extreme weather
conditions.
 Piak
(left) and Mink gave a good effort in the competition.
Sinsupa Wannasuth or Mink (a second year BBA student) was holding an
excellent third place run in to the finish line in her second race,
which included sixty other boats, when the weather got the better of her
and she capsized losing her advantage. It must be noted that of the
sixty-one boats taking part in this particular race, only eleven managed
to finish because of the inclement weather, so well done to Mink and
commiserations on your stroke of bad luck.
In other news from the sailing, Piak (sports instructor) managed to
finish in the top 50% of the competitors which was a marvellous result
as he has only been sailing twice before, and the other teams were ‘Old
Salts’ from Thailand and other South East Asian countries, with many
such competitions under their belts. A great effort from Piak and a
truly great effort from all the competitors. Asian U looks forward to
taking part in, and maybe winning, future events.
Mink sets sail in what
turned out to be extreme weather conditions.
Mink has recently returned from two weeks in Olympia,
Greece, where she attended the International Olympic Academy for young
participants. She represented Thailand at the seminar, which was to
prepare the youngsters for the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.
Asian U’s sailing team
members were proud to successfully compete in the races.
College honours King with musical celebration
Mark Beales
Budding musicians from around the region recently gathered at Assumption
College Sriracha for a musical competition. Groups from 18 schools
covering Bangkok,
The ‘sor’ - a traditional
musical instrument - is expertly played by an Assumption student.
Chonburi, Rayong and Samutprakarn went to Assumption
for the special competition.
The musical extravaganza is held every year but this year it was held in
honour of His Majesty the King’s 60th anniversary as monarch.
Students skillfully played a variety of classical Thai instruments -
such as the Khorn Wong Yai (steel drums) and Lanaeak (xylophone) -
before a packed audience
Assumption College Sriracha scooped four of the trophies, including one
donated by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindhorn, herself an
accomplished musician. Her Royal Highness has a close connection with
Assumption, as the school’s athletics’ stadium was named in her honour.
Students from Assumption scooped
several prizes at a recent speech contest
Students from Assumption recently took part in the district
and regional finals of the speech competition. All those taking part
wrote and presented a speech based on ‘My Beloved King’.
 A
talented Assumption student entertains the audience by playing the
traditional ‘klui’ instrument.
The regional finals were held recently in Chanthaburi and schools from
eight districts around the region took part.
Assumption’s Mathayom 6 student Prasertsak Charoensap (Ton) was the
district and regional winner for the Private School Group. Ton will now
go on to represent Assumption at the Eastern Area final at Burapha
University, Bangsaen, on September 8.
Mathayom 3’s Akerin Premwattana (Joey) was runner-up in the district
section for the normal school group. Natthawat Kaennakham (Nat), who
studies in Mathayom 1, took third place for the MEP/EP group at the
district level.
Prathom 6 student Ken was second in the regional final after having
earlier taken first place at district level for the MEP/EP group.
Jackaree, a Prathom 3 student, took first place in the MEP/EP group at
district level.
One of the judges was Mr Steve Gibson, an English teacher at Assumption.
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