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City salutes student marching band for big German wins

The young band members join in the ceremony by lighting and placing joss sticks in the ceremonial urn in front of City Hall.

Manoon Makpol

Top Pattaya officials congratulated Pattaya’s city-wide marching bands, which took home gold medals at a European competition.

The Great King Taksin’s statue looks over the ceremony at City Hall.

Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome, Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon and Pattaya school administrators saluted the two bands, comprised of students from the city’s 11 public schools, July 14 as they paid respect at the Great King Taksin statue in front of Pattaya City Hall.

The bands won two gold medals July 4-13 at Germany’s Rasteder Musiktage International Open. The German show is an official qualifying competition for entry into the 2012 and 2013 World Association of Marching Show Bands World Championships to be held in January.

The marchers took top honors in the marching parade and show band categories.

Itthiphol said the bands made the city proud and enhanced its reputation overseas. The city donated new uniforms and arranged transport, meals and accommodations.

(Above) Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome leads the school bands and city administrators in paying homage to King Taksin the Great.


GIS students visit WWII memorial

GIS students enjoyed Kanchanaburi’s natural attractions,
from waterfalls to kayaking!

Mark Beales

Students from Garden International School (GIS) learned about Thailand’s wartime history during a recent trip to Kanchanaburi.

Secondary students headed off to the western province for their trip, where they learned about the infamous railway that prisoners of war were forced to build during World War Two.

Students from the Rayong-based school had time to enjoy the area’s fantastic natural wonders as they kayaked and travelled in bamboo rafts along the famous River Kwai. They were also able to enjoy an elephant trek and even bathe the elephants afterwards.

A visit to the Hellfire Pass Memorial gave students the chance to walk along part of the actual railway track, and see the infamous cutting where many prisoners of war died. The cutting got its name as the torches used at night were said to resemble scenes from Dante’s Inferno. Students continued their history of the area by visiting a war cemetery, where they paid their respects.


Mercy Center children are ‘same same’ when it comes to bad hair days

Loi (left), head of Jutamat Beauty School in Soi 16, Pattaya South, donates nearly 700 baht to Sharon Greenhalgh, who is in charge of the Mercy Children’s Home, to help with the cost of continuing construction.

Kids all over the world react strongly to anyone attempting to change their appearance. For better or worse, positively or negatively, getting a haircut can be a life altering experience, or so it seems until you’re into your upper teens.

Jutamat Beauty School students donate their time and skills to style new hair fashions for all the Mercy Family.

Pattaya’s Mercy Center children are no different. Loved, wanted, orphaned, rich, abused, poor, abandoned, misused - it’s all the same when you’re in the chair... like Marmite or Vegemite, you either love it or hate it!

This week, Jutamat Beauty School students went to the Mercy Center’s new “Baan Khong Por” Children’s Home in Pong district of Pattaya. They donated their time and skills to style new hair fashions for all the Mercy Family.

Loi, head of Jutamat Beauty School in Soi 16, Pattaya South, also donated nearly 700 baht to help with the cost of continuing construction at Mercy Center’s “forever” home for the 20 children in their care; and the 30 more high risk youngsters who will be joining the Mercy Family over the next months.

The official opening of Baan Khong Por and celebration of Mercy’s past and future decades of care for Pattaya’s most needy is scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday 25 September.

In addition to the Mercy Children’s Home, the Mercy/Pattaya Street Kids scholarship initiative provides funding to enable over 220 students to attend school and the slum support project provides basic foodstuffs and essentials for seventy families in Pattaya’s poorest areas.

Show your care, please, by contacting 038 416 707 to find out how you can help support Mercy Center projects. Email: mercypattaya @gmail .com & visit: www.mercy pattaya.com

You’ll be glad you did!

The construction at the new home is ongoing.


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City salutes student marching band for big German wins

GIS students visit WWII memorial

Mercy Center children are ‘same same’ when it comes to bad hair days
 

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