2550 Buddha Jayanthi Celebrations

The All Ceylon Women's Buddhist Congress has organized a series of programmes this year to commemorate the 2550 Buddha Jayanthi.

A Bakthi Gee Contest among Colombo schools was held recently and the awards presentation is to be held at the Navarangahala, Thurstan Road, Colombo 7 at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 27. Film Director, Sumithra Peiris will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest.

With my Feet in Kandy

"With my Feet" a dance performance by Naomi Rajaratnam's Dance School will be held in Kandy at the Trinity College Hall on October 1. The show is organized by the Inner Wheel of Kandy Metropolitan (District 222). The two-hour show is for a worthy cause, that of street children.

"Blossoms of Hope", a home for the street children being planned by the Inner Wheel Club members aims to rehabilitate street children who have had no proper parental care. There will also be day care facilities for infants.

Annual Good News Fair

The annual Good News Fair organised by the Ceylon Bible Society will be held on Saturday, September 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dutch Reformed Church, Wellawatte.

There will be bargains galore with stalls selling books, gift items, sweets, vegetables, clothes etc. The chief guests will be Mr and Mrs C. Schafter.

Josephian Confuoro

'Josephian Confuoro', a band display featuring the bands of ten leading Colombo schools organized by St. Joseph's College will be held at the school sports complex on September 30 at 3 p.m.

St. Joseph's, St. Peter's, St. Benedicts', Holy Family Convent, Our Lady of Victory, Musaeus College, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Loyola and St. Sebastian's are the bands taking part.

The event has been organized under the patronage of Rector Rev. Fr. Sylvester Ranasinghe and supervised by Deputy Rector Rev. Fr. Sudath Gunaratne, teacher- in-charge Mrs Shanthi Heethawakaarachchi and band instructor Ranjith Nawaratna.