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The proceedings for the evening commenced with Old Thomians, Steven Selvadurai and Wimsy Sinnathamby along with members of their families leading the crowd gathered in singing Christmas Carols accompanied by Louis on the keyboard.<\/p>\n
At 8:00 pm Santa made his first stop on his annual trek around the world to bring joy to all kids present, by doing his practice run with Rudolph and the Reindeers by flying over from the North Pole to the STC OBA Canada Event.\u00a0 Gifts were given to over 20 children present, along with pictures sitting on Santa\u2019s lap.\u00a0 This was followed by pictures of families and some larger kids sitting on Santa\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n
The Royal College group followed by singing their share of Carols, followed by the girls from St.Bridget\u2019s Convent.<\/p>\n
The entertainment for the evening then commenced with some beautiful music provided by Thomians.\u00a0 Kumaru Wijesundera, Shantha Jayasekera accompanied by their children and vocalist, Shantha\u2019s niece.\u00a0 The highlight of the evening was the little son and daughter of Shantha\u2019s niece singing in true professional style some Christmas songs to the delight of all present including Santa.\u00a0 Senior member, Kail Rajah\u2019s grandson then gave a solo performance playing his guitar and singing along.<\/p>\n
Natalie Jayasekera, wife of Shantha organized some kid\u2019s craft which was followed with pizza dinner.<\/p>\n
The adults\u2019 dinner of Hoppers followed, with music going from there on uninterrupted.\u00a0 Daya Ginige and Shantha also provided recorded music.\u00a0 The very reliable Chian de Silva provided the sound and also doubled up as bartender for the evening.\u00a0 A special guest at the gathering was old Thomian and former DIG Sri Lanka Police and now in retirement as a lawyer, Thangavelu, who took the mike, and belted out several Sinhala and Tamil songs.<\/p>\n
President Hiran, then took off his President\u2019s hat and put on his Santa hat to hand out some gifts to members of his Executive Committee past year, and some wives for their outstanding contributions during the year.<\/p>\n
Another great event organized by the incoming Thomian committee.\u00a0 Special thanks to Sri Rangan and Thamal Perera.<\/p>\n
Enjoy the upcoming Holidays with your family and friends.\u00a0 We look forward to another new year of friendship and fellowship amongst all old Thomians in Canada in Y2013.<\/p>\n
Hiran Adhihetty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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