Football can be a primitive sport on occasions but before kick off at Cardiff tonight the Wales and Scotland players will acknowledge the nation’s thoughts for a family in distress. The game provides many of us with opportunities to remember we are members of a complex and caring society. The The Wee Oscar 4 Life team have asked me to invite you to next month’s race night at Celtic Park. This is from them:
Be a hero for Wee Oscar and come along and join us for the WeeOscar4Life Race Night and Auction on 17th November in the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park!
Wee Oscar and his family flew to Philadelphia on the 6th October to start Wee Oscar’s potentially lifesaving Immunotherapy treatment, unfortunately due to health complications Wee Oscar was rushed into Intensive Care and it appears that these complications have shattered the prospect of receiving this immunotherapy treatment in Philadelphia. The events from the last few days have strengthened the WeeOscar4Life Campaign’s resolve to ensure maximum support for Wee Oscar and his family throughout Wee Oscar’s treatment. Set-backs such as this mean that it’s now more important than ever to raise additional funds.
The WeeOscar4Life campaign are proud to continue our fundraising for Oscar and his family during his treatment; Lisa Hague, Patron of the campaign, and Partner of Celtic’s Kris Commons says ‘This is the next stage of fundraising which will directly support Oscar and his family throughout the treatment and we implore the Celtic Family to continue supporting this incredibly worthwhile appeal. The Race Night and Auction is going to be a wonderful night and I can’t wait for the fun!”
Tom Boyd, the captain who stopped 10, said, “It will be my pleasure to support the WeeOscar4Life campaign by attending the race night next month. The backing shown by the Celtic Family already has been nothing short of extraordinary, and has inspired many of us to get involved and help this family through such an abysmal time.”
10 WeeOscar4Life Corporate tables, seating 10 people, are available on a first come first served basis offering preferential seating, drinks package, snacks, free entry and company advertising/printed logos. Early booking is advised as advanced reservations mean there is limited availability.
WeeOscar4Life seats are available and can be purchased individually or as groups at £7 per ticket. Again these seats will be sold on a first come first served basis. Snacks will be available on each table. Tables seat 10 people.
On the night there will be 8 races a raffle and an auction.
Race sponsorship is also available at £250 per race.
Jockey and Owner sponsorship is also available at £5 per Jockey or Owner. Each winning Jockey and Owner will receive a prize.
To reserve tickets or request further information please contact the team at here WeeOscar4Life@gmail.com.
The event flyer can be found here.
The full press release can be found here.
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Philvis
Sadly you have bought into the ideoligy that you should
make profit from natural resources.
Scotland can be self sufficient.
Not sure about the ponies though.
God help us
Made the mistake of reading vanguard bears (I know, my own fault).
Do you know they are comparing the BBC handling of Hutton report ino the death of Davis Kelly and the Jimmy Saville scandal with the Mad Men montage at the start of the Sevco game vs Motherwell.
I feel sick. Serves me right.
How can they be so permanently angry?
TTTT
Need to wait till two get back from Donegal next week and then we’ll see
Buick Mc C -I’m sad that I didn’t hear of Bro. Justin’s passing – he was can inspiration to me.
JimmyQuinnsBits – Unions and labour had nothing to do with it? So we stay with the Victorian attitude to labour (not the party), and don’t nationalise the coal mining industry (as an example), and rely on the beneficence of unregulated privateers to pull society forwards.
Well, how is the nationalised coal mining industry doing these days?
And please, let’s not blame it all on Thatcher. Labour (the party) closed more mines in the 1970’s than she did in the 80’s.
I can post a few examples of how that worked
Yup. Freedom means people will sometimes do unpleasant things.
However the record of free markets stands up rather well compared with the workers’ paradises of the Eastern Bloc, China, and eveywhere else in the world that has been cursed with full-blooded socialism.
Overall and over time markets tend to make the common man richer, which is why for example we can afford to have computers on our desks more powerful than the most expensive supercomputers of just 25 years ago. (thumbsup)
BT – will be in touch. Last time i saw Canamalar he had his grumpy heid on and was telling Stevie fae the Dolphin how Fergie had his team set out wrong.
Speak soon.
AoW
Gordon64 – Sadly you have bought into the ideoligy that you should
make profit from natural resources.
Obviously I’d be better served with the ideology that one can have something for nothing, which in practice always means stealing from other people. (thumbsup)
Interesting….
Seems to be a lot of ‘hand-wringing’ here on CQN tonight….
All on account of a coupla ‘Palestinians’ being detained by the Israeli Defense Force….
At a time of heightened terrorist threat…
When the ONLY Democracy in the Mid-East is under existential threat as never before….
What about the horrendous situation faced by our Oppressed Christian Brethren …..
Right across the Mid-East…?
Doesn’t seem to evoke much concern from Oor ‘Plastique Paddies’….
As far as I can see….
“Viva La Quinta Brigada!”,”Viva Fidel!”, “Viva Che Guevara!”,”Viva Gorgeous George!”…..
“Long Live The Bolivar Revolucion Of Hugo Chavez!!”….
Indeed…!
But 12 Million Christian Copts….?
Bit TOO Foreign,Mebbies…?
Not Worthy of Consideration….
Never mind the mass casualties after the bombing of the Midnight Mass Service at Alexandria Cathedral two Christmas’ ago..
Hardly Blantyre or the Bogside….
Or the ‘Maspero Massacre’ of Coptic Christians demonstrating for their Rights in Central Cairo last year….
Hardly ‘Bloody Sunday’….after all…
Or the Christian employees of a Cairo Television Station who were hauled off by mobs last month and crucified on trees, outside Government Buildings….?
Even the BBC and Sky reported on ALL of these events….
Perhaps our Government should withhold ‘Aid’ to Egypt….
And insist that the EU do likewise….
Until Morsi’s Government guarantees the security and welfare of minorities in Egypt…?
After all,UK aid to Kenya has been curtailed because of the Government’s ‘robust’ views on homosexuality…
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12376/egypt-christians-distraught-and-displaced
(Raymond Ibrahim Is An American,Of Coptic Egyptian Descent….)
Gordon64
Did you investigate and get the information or are you just agitating once again?
Good wine once again? Come on let us all in on your secret recipe. ;))
Philvis,
tch tch… I had a toatie digital hammer 25 years ago, which is more powerful than the most expensive supercomputer of today.
And you know that when I gave the example of the the nationalised coal industry, it was as an example of what was required to counter the conditions imposed by the unfettered thingymujig… lets compromise and call it exploitation
Philvis
Your view of humanity is rather warped.
The vast majority of people do not steal from each other.
Have greater faith in your fellow human beings.
Philvis
Since you mention free leccy.
I remember a story my Da told me about Hydro leccy.
I may well be wrong in my recolection, but he said that a charge was made to folk who recieved Hydro, and when the plants were paid for there would only be a charge similar to the water supply, and that was zero.
Oh how times have changed :>)
petec
22:52 on 13 October, 2012
Oh,yes.
Marvellous positivity.
” Give me excess of it,that surfeiting…….”
Thanks for Eric.
Philvis – hehe.
Have an image of you at the dole counter with your little Lord Fauntelroy outfit on complaining at the standard of service.
ps. how was the Tory Party conf?
phyllisd
i was told the news 2-3 weeks ago by another ex mungo boy.
he was one of the teachers who was liked by most kids
Never thought I’d see the term “‘Plastique Paddies’” used so freely on a Celtic blog.
Obviously the world is more full of fake fenians, counterfeit celts, sham seamuses, bogus brendans, dummy desmonds and general greenhuns than I thought.
There would, indeed, be some evidence of hand wringing if such a phrase was repeated in my company.
I see that CQN’s Nazi Tendency has made a tentative re-emergence from their bunkers back into the harsh world of normal humanity.
Is it Adolf’s birthday ?
The Mair Philvis Insists That He Resembles The Young Carrie Grant….
The Mair Ah Hiv Visions O’ A Ginger Michael Gove….
Laughin’…..Of Course…!
Petec
I’m not being ignorant but your views
are a little too out there for me.
HH
Capitalism has given us immense opportunity to live lives our ancestors could only dream of. But the genius of capitalism is that it can absorb social democratic ideals, which spread this wealth and sustain a healthy consumer society. Despite all our problems those of us living in the west in the last sixty years truly are the winners in humanity’s lottery…
wot a lot of pish
hoopy-do
That made me laugh.
Gordon64:
Wait till they privatise the air that you breathe and then levy you every lungful.
hoopy-do
23:22 on
13 October, 2012
comment of the night… salute
hoopy-do
Which bit, bucket full’s of p1sh on here tonight :>)
philvisreturns
23:05 on 13 October, 2012
Gordon64 – Sadly you have bought into the ideoligy that you should
make profit from natural resources.
Obviously I’d be better served with the ideology that one can have something for nothing, which in practice always means stealing from other people. (thumbsup)
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A direct quote from American foreign policy……….impressive……thumbsup lol!
Gordon64
23:20 on 13 October, 2012
Petec
I’m not being ignorant but your views
are a little too out there for me.
HH
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That is deflection from the point I made.
Did you investigate?
My eldest son had a local mp turn up for a q&a at college yesterday. My son asked the mp how he could justify spending the huge amounts of money required for Trident when children like Oscar needed potential life saving medical assistance at a fraction of the cost of a single bomb. Particularly when we have plenty of WMD already.
He wasn’t given an answer which could explain how a civilised society could make that choice.
I wonder what that mp and others of all parties would say to the parents and family of Oscar if they read the latest blog http://oscarknox.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/it-all-goes-wrong-in-philadelphia.html
Diving for sheer life, when we could be diving for pearls.
ItaliaBhoy
23:20 on 13 October, 2012
‘Capitalism has given us immense opportunity to live lives our ancestors could only dream of. But the genius of capitalism is that it can absorb social democratic ideals, which spread this wealth and sustain a healthy consumer society. Despite all our problems those of us living in the west in the last sixty years truly are the winners in humanity’s lottery…’
Yes we are indeed lucky to be living in a time and place where humanity’s economic progress has reached its zenith.
To think that after 2 million years of economic evolution this is as good as it gets. It can’t get any better than this
It sure makes you think.
Sheer – dear.
Petec
Mr Burns was the other PE teacher.
Hoopy do-Spot on back to Blazing Saddles….
Ernie
Spot on.
Any chance you are inclined towards
an Independent Scotland ?
“But the genius of capitalism is that it can absorb social democratic ideals”
if ever a statement is so far removed from reality that is it – just a maggie soundbite, nothing more
that will be the social democratic ideals that allows a select few at the top of the tree to use the rest of us as pawns to grab theirselves huge pots of cash – and then when times get tough they cast us on the scrap heap while unbelievably they get richer
power companies with inflation busting price rises during a deep recession while still making incredible profits
companies making people redundant during a recession while making huge profits
the day theres a social conscience element to the captalist system prevalent in the world is the day the rest of us may start to believe its there to serve all of us and not just those with piles of cash
Blazing saddles on itv4
lorbobo
23:30 on 13 October, 2012
Petec
Mr Burns was the other PE teacher.
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Thanks for that info. It is still a bit vague and it shows how far I have went off the rails during my life. ;))
Mr Burns is definitely there in my mind now you mention it but our classes usually got taken by Mr Ward or Mr Hoey.
Hail Hail
A Mary Brookbank song… if you haven’t heard of her, look it up. Wee people making a difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad-EN6fYANw
Enjoyed lurking tonight bhoys and ghirls. Good night and Hail hail