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Help kidney patient

M.K. Vernan Ronald Rodrigo, 49, with end state kidney failure has been recommended a kidney transplant. The expenses for anti-rejection therapy, custodial solution and investigations have to be borne by the patient and the cost will be around Rs 400,000.

Rodrigo requests public help. Contributions can be remitted to Account No: Deepa Sujeevani Perera 1-0075-03-1880-9 at National Savings Bank, Kadawatha or Account No: Deepa Sujeevani Perera 4177207, Bank of Ceylon, Kadawatha. His contact numbers are 033-3333852 or 0717-337034.

Meeting

Gampaha district UPFA leader and Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa will address a meeting of Samurdhi officers at Samurdhi Mawatha, Biyagama today (9) at 10.00 a.m.

Women’s day commemoration

A special function to commemorate International Women’s Day Organized by not-for-profit organization, Women In Need will be held today (9) at the Gatambe Stadium in Kandy. It will feature a variety of handicraft stalls and a special cultural show.

Women In Need strives to promote the rights of women, with emphasis against domestic violence and all other forms of discrimination.

Book launch

The authology of poems titled ‘Pamaavee-Aa-Wasanthaya’ written by Mangala Seneviratne - development assistant attached to Ududhumbara Divisional Secretariat will be launched on March 10 at 2.00 p.m. at the AGA office auditorium. It will be presided over by the AGA W.H.M. Abeysinghe.

Maliyadeva Annual Sports Meet

The Annual Sports Meet of the Maliyadeva College will be held on March 12 with the patronage the Maliyadeva College Old Boys’ Association at the New Maliyadeva Esplanade.

The chief guest will be Road and Road Development Minister T.B. Ekanayake.

President of OBA Gamini Swarnapala invites all past students to attend the event at 12.30 p.m.

AGM

The Annual General Meeting and the election of office - bearers of the Alumni Association of the Peradeniya University Colombo Chapter will be held on March 13, (Saturday) at the Shalika Hall, Park Road, Colombo 05, commencing at 9.30 p.m.

Vice Chancellor of the Uva-Welassa University Professor Chandra Embuldeniya will be the Chief Guest and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Professor Sam Karunaratna will be the Guest of Honour.

Podi Menike gets new observation compartment

The Railway Department will introduce a new observation compartment consisting 44 seats to the Podi Menike express train plying from Colombo to Badulla.

Railways General Manager P.G. Wijesekera said this new compartment will replace the existing 24 seater observation saloon.

He said these two observation compartments are being manufactured at the Ratmalana Railways factory costing Rs One billion.

Wijesekera said these compartments will be on track before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year.

Robbers on motorcycle disappear with Rs 1m

Bandula Gunasekara and T.K. Ariyadasa Malimbada group corr.

Two men on a motorcycle disappeared after grabbing Rs. One million from a manager of a private filling station in Embilipitiya Town on Saturday.

The robbery had taken place while the money was being taken by the filling station manager to be deposited in a private bank branch in the Embilipitiya town.