Bar & Restaurant, Pattaya, Thailand - Kim Fletcher Landlord Jameson's the Irish Pub

LAST CALL FOR THE CHILDREN’S FAIR ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9th

Mike Franklin

An action packed day awaits the Jesters Children’s fairgoers on Sunday September 9th at Diana Garden Resort, North Pattaya, with the focus being fun for the children and fun for the family. Over 80 stalls will offer so much too see and do, and so much to eat with Thai, Eastern and Western food of every description. Candy Floss is back again with 10 different flavours and two stalls this year.
The activities include plenty of new and exciting games and lots of prizes for the kids. There will be live bands, entertainers, a circus workshop, and clowns with brightly colored balloons. The climbing wall will be there, bouncy castle, a Taekwondo martial arts demonstration and Star-Photo will be covering the fairground to take and print family photos using the latest ‘wireless’ camera technology.
The famous Children’s Raffle has lots of great prizes with Wonder-Pooh bear and his pal Super-Ted supervising everything with the draw at 4.00 pm. Here are some of the prizes to be won:
Mountain bike, Yamaha Acoustic guitar, Color TV and DVD players, MP4 players, Canon printer/copier/scanner, R/C Helicopter and Race Car, Wireless microphone system, Dome tent, Casio electronic keyboard, an Index Crash helmet, a Jiehe Telescope, Tata Young signed Karaoke VCDs, Digital Video 1GB flash memory, a 10 Pc Tool set, kitchen appliances from Moulinex and Philips, a Scooter-car and more. The prize sponsors are PSC, Diana Group, Double A Logistics, Pattaya Trader, Tahitian Queen & the Franklin family. Lots of valuable prizes, so visit me and Bernie at the Children’s Raffle stall. We have hundreds of vouchers from Sizzler. Burger King, Dairy Queen, Pizza Company & Swensen’s to give away, and many signed T shirts and CDs from Tata Young.
Just before the Children’ Raffle draw at 4.00 pm, it is the special Kids Tug ‘O’ War, a real highlight of the day. Finally, we round off the day as the sun goes down with live music from Pop’s Pattaya All Stars and Annie’s Band, so there are many good reasons for Children and the Family to be there for the whole day.
The Fair opens at 10 am and the scheduled program looks like this:

06:00: Stallholders set up
10:00: Opening Ceremony for Fair
• National anthem by Marching Band from a Pattaya School
• Opening Speech by Chairman Lewis Underwood
• Opening Speech by Pattaya Mayor Niran Watanasartsathorn
• Ribbon-cutting ceremony by the Mayor, Khun Sopin Thappajug and Graham Macdonald
• Marching band performance
10:30: Start of children’s variety show
• Fountain of Life Children
• Ban Jing Jai Children
• School for the Blind
• Mercy Center Children
• APEC 2003
• Annie’s Band
12:00: Children’s games
12:30: Continued variety show
• Ooi’s Taekwondo demonstration
• Circus act: juggling
13:00: Children’s games
13:30: Continued variety show
• Regent’s Band (“Through the Dawn”)
• APEC 2003
14:30: Children’s games
15:00: Presentation of bicycles to ‘Best of the Class’ FOL kids in memory of Chris Kays
(Bikes provided by Mark Gorda)
15:30: Children games: tug-of-war
16:00: Children’s Raffle Draw.
16:30: Live music
• Annie’s Band
• Pop’s All-Stars
18:00: Wrap up

Many of the under-privileged and needy children that we support, from the Fountain of Life, Ban Jing Jai Orphanage, the Blind School and Mercy Center, will be there having a wonderful day out and enjoying the Fair with us in the Jesters 10th Anniversary ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive year. These are some of the kids that we help, thanks to all our sponsors and the support from everyone coming to our two annual events, the Jesters Children’s Fair and six days later on Saturday 15th September at Jameson’s, the Jesters Party Night.
If you have not been to the Diana Garden Resort before, here is how to get to the Children’s Fair.

The evening of Saturday 15th September is our final fund-raiser and last chance to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of ‘Jesters ‘Care for Kids’. This is the night with something for everyone, combining the key sporting event of Wales and Australia battling it out in the Rugby World Cup with the chance to win motor bikes, airline tickets and vacations and much more in the Grand raffle, and make bids for exciting sports memorabilia, antiques and diamond rings.
If you happen to be a newcomer to Jameson’s, here is the location.

By supporting Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ you will be helping to care for kids that really need our help. As a reminder of the great Children’s Fair we had last year, tune in to PMTV this Friday 7th September to see a clip from the 2006 DVD feature.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT THE JESTERS SPORTING PARTY NIGHT

by Mike Franklin

A fabulous night is in store at Jameson’s Irish Pub on Saturday 15th September for the final fund-raising event of the Jesters 10th Anniversary ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive year.
Corporate and individual sponsorship has exceeded all previous years, the Jesters Children’s Fair is sold out and promises to be the best yet, and the Jesters Sporting Party Night is set to round off the 2007 Charity Drive in style. A party night with something for everyone.
With all the entertainment and sport on the weekly calendar it is important to cater for everybody on Party Night, in the same way that the Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive seeks to cover all of the needs of the underprivileged kids that we raise funds for. The money raised on Saturday 15th September will close the Charity Drive account for 2007 and, with your attendance and support, will result in a record total and a record benefit year for the Kids.
The Party Night kicks off in earnest at 6.30 pm with 90 minutes of entertainment fronted by Mike Gerrard to warm everybody up, Dale will rekindle fond memories of Elvis and star Bangkok DJs Paul Jackson & Andy Francis are on station to segue the opening entertainment set. Around 7.30 pm Erik Sorensen and trainer Robert Jonasson will interrupt proceedings by their arrival back from Trat after yet another successful marathon cycle ride and sponsorship exceeding 500,000 baht.
Meanwhile for New Zealand sports fans, a screen in a discreet corner will follow the traditional Maori haka and World Cup power rugby against Portugal from Lyon. Less discreet, however, will be multi-screen coverage of the Wales vs. Australia match from Cardiff. No handbags on the field, and no crash helmets or overt body armor for these guys – this is a powerhouse physical contact sport at its best with two mega-fit prime contending nations hammering it out in the early stages of the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
There is an opportunity to appreciate items of Welsh and Australian memorabilia up for auction later in the evening. On display throughout, bids will be accepted around 8.40 pm during the short half-time break. The top ‘lot’ being the 2005 Welsh Grand Slam jersey signed by that amazing team. And that will be the ideal moment to come on with the bar snacks - Welsh rarebit, Roo rolls and Outback pies. The spectacle continues until around 9.30 pm when the auctioneer’s gavel will work in earnest and silent bids received will be revealed. Lots also include memorabilia of Michael Schumacher, Sir Matt Busby, Arnold Palmer, and teams Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton. Plus antiques, diamond rings, children’s original drawings and other unique items.
The entertainment and music continues thereafter with sets from Rick & Harpic and Pop’s Pattaya All Stars with the Grand raffle scheduled just before 11 pm when the winners of the motor bikes, airline tickets and packages to Angkor Wat, River Kwai, Koh Samui and the Similan Islands will be drawn. Not forgetting vouchers to the top Pattaya restaurants including Bruno’s, Mata Hari, and the Manhattan Steakhouse
However, if Premier League football is your priority other discreet corners will cover Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Middlesbrough matches, to name just some.
This is a party night for everyone to enjoy and make it memorable wind down to a quite extraordinary Jesters 10th Anniversary year.