THERE are still a few tickets left for this Sunday's big tsunami concert.
The Huddersfield In Harmony event, featuring six choirs and two brass bands, takes place at Huddersfield Town Hall at 7pm.
It is sponsored by Richard Alexander and Alexander Audi.
Tickets are priced £10 and are available from Huddersfield's Tourist Information Centre.
Kirklees Mayor Clr Mary Harkin is the event's official host.
Use of the hall has been given free of charge.
Clr Harkin says: "I'm delighted to be hosting this. "I had no hesitation when I was approached by the council's chief executive, Rob Vincent, to make the hall available.
"I want to thank New Mill Male Voice Choir and the Examiner for their hard work in putting the programme together.
"I hope the last few tickets will be snapped up so that we can have a full house on the night!"
The concert, compered by top broadcaster Harry Gration, ties in with a big fundraising raffle, to be drawn the following day.
ARTIST Chris Goodswen and former Huddersfield Town chairman Graham Leslie have both provided last-minute boosts to our grand tsunami raffle.
Chris, of Meltham, has given a pastel picture she drew at one of the tsunami's horror spots.
And Graham has handed over boxing gloves signed by Henry Cooper!
Both prizes join the list of more than 100 goodies up for grabs. Top prizes include an Amsterdam mini cruise and a bathroom suite worth £600.
Graham says: "Henry Cooper was a speaker at a Conservative Party ball and he gave me the signed gloves.
"He told me to make good use of them, if I had any charity events. This is the perfect opportunity!"
Krabbi in Thailand was an idyllic resort when Chris, 58, visited in 2001.
Her son Jason married his Australian wife Danielle there.
Mum-of-four Chris, a retired management consultant and one-time art teacher, said: "It was wonderful, the rock formations, the landscape and the chalet huts and palm trees.
"Now all that's been wiped out. I remember a woman with a fridge and a cart of pineapples, freezing quarters wrapped in banana leaves and selling them as lollies.
"She'll probably be gone - among many thousands of other ordinary people eking out a living there."
The whole area fell victim to the quake wave.
Chris, who exhibits her work at the White Rooms in Meltham and at Redbrick Mill, Batley, says: "I was devastated to hear about the tsunami.
"At the January sales here, I couldn't bear to see people grabbing at goods and queuing at the tills, when elsewhere, this was happening."
Chris's picture is one of a series of four that she did. She normally sells her artwork for £150 to £400, but has donated this picture as a raffle prize.
Tickets are priced £1 and are available from the Examiner at Queen Street South, from customer services at Tesco in Huddersfield, at Kitsons newsagents on Princess Alexandra Walk, the Good Food Business in Upperhead Row, Jonsted Garage in Brockholes and Kaye's Ironmongers in Holmfirth, as well as the bands and choirs involved in the concert.
They're on sale until the end of the week.
The raffle will be drawn on Monday by the Mayor.
Many prizes were donated by advertisers:
AB Gas, Free safety check; AC Gallery, one Peter Brook signed picture and £30 picture framing vouchers; AT Electricals, Vac; Bang Design, Free artwork; Beatties, Beatties Bear/Chanel Gift; BHS, £20; BHS, £20 voucher; Bicycle Shed, Voucher; Brenda Ellen, Bling bag; Bonnet to Boot repairs, Puncture preventative treatment for your car; Boots, FCUK perfume and body lotion gift pack; Briers, Mens shaver (£96); Boxing Gloves signed by Henry Cooper; Broadbents, Iron; Bronze Bodies, £20 tanning/beauty voucher; Brooklands Nursery, £20 voucher; Burntacre Products, Pet Mattress; Butlins Jewellers, £30 voucher; Alison Campbell, hand-made vase; Carl Stuart, £50 dress hire voucher; Cedar Court, Dinner for four in conjunction with DC Motorcycles with a Limo evening; Charles Cook Vets, Micro Chip; China Rose, Meal for two; Cinderella at Le Bonnet, £25 voucher; Cobblers, Pewter Tankard; Cobwood Engravers, £20 voucher; Connexions Mobile (PAYG); Connoisseur Cashmere, Cashmere Scarf; Comet, Morphy Richards Food mixer and Breville four-slice toaster; Croxfords, Four cushions; CWS D/G, 25% voucher.
Donaldsons Vets, £10 voucher; H Downs & Sons, Dozen bottles of wine; Earnshaws Motorcycle, Motorcycle jacket; Eldon Electrical, LG Microwave; Fillans, Pair of Ladies' Gold Earrings value £50; Frank Platt, Voucher for £25; Gardinia, Champagne and chocolates x 2; Godfrey Topping, Vac; Halifax Building Society, Philips CD player; Happy Haddock, Family meal; Hillside Nurseries, £50 worth of electricals; Hinchliffe Farm Shop, £20 meat voucher; E Hobsons Florists, £20 voucher; Home Electrical Services, Vac; Irene Gilpin, £5 voucher; John Gledhill, Huddersfield Choral Society concert tickets; Huddersfield Hotel, Meal for two in Bistro (Tues to Fri); John Shaws, Free MOT (car); Jonsted Garages, 2 x £25 fill ups (car); JPB, Voucher for £100; Kebabish, Indian meal for two to take away; Jack Kilner and Sons, CD Micro system worth £50; Kirkdale Tours, Amsterdam Mini Cruise; Kirklees Active Leeds & Holbeck, three large golf umberellas; Leisure, Six-month membership for two at Stadium Health and Fitness Club valued at £500; Kirklees Light Railway, Family ticket; Learner Driver Centre, Learner lessons x 10; Lee Garden Restaurant, voucher £30; Lincolns Florists, Voucher for £30; Lloyds Bank, Large box of Thorntons chocolates; Logik Computers, Wireless Keyboard; Mick Madden, Slave for a day; Meadow Sweet Ballons, Decoupage picture value £30.
Meltham Fabrications, £50 worth of electrical goods; Monsoon, Meal for two up to £25; Motorcise Healthy Living Centre, New Street, Huddersfield - one prize of six months membership and six prizes of a month each; Nawaab, £30 voucher; New Age Windows, £750 door; North Carpet Cleaning, Clean lounge carpet free; Old Bridge Hotel, Meal for two; Oscars Pet Food, One months supply cat food and 7KG bag dog food; PC's Petcare, £10 voucher; Pennine Manor, Lunch for two; Peters, Three gift baskets valued at £75 each; PP Marron, £100 voucher; Rastrick Independent School, Books; Rhodes Nicholson, Cordless drill; Ruddimans, Nest of Tables; Sellers Travel, £50 voucher; Shabab, Meal up to £40; Shades of China, Holme Valley Plate; Shampooch, Two vouchers for shampooing/grooming; Skipton Building Society, Savings account worth £50; Speights, Lamp; Specsavers, Voucher for a pair of designer specs to the value of £90-£100; Spinks Nest, £10 meal/drink voucher; Strawberry Fayre, Voucher for £50; Sunderland Football Club, Signed Marcus Stewart shirt; Talkative, Mobile phone or free kit to value of £100; Thatchers, 2 x £50 vouchers; The Carper Cleaner, Clean three piece suite and carpets; Tony Iredale (Brighouse), Holiday voucher for £100; Toymaster, 2 x Mini Creation Systems; Total Fitness Waterloo, Two one day family membership and four free passes;Trade Price Beds, £50 to spend in store; Travellers Rest, Bottle of Whisky; Travellers Rest Brockholes, £25 food voucher; UCI, Cinema tickets; Victorian Bathrooms, Bathroom suite worth over £600; Wellcroft Service Station, Bottle of Wine; WH Smith, Five photo albums and two photo frames; Wilson Jewellers, £50 voucher; Ottakers, Michael Palin's Himalaya; Anon, China Thai meal for two value £50; Anon, De Longhi Coffee Maker; Yorkshire Building Society, £50 M&S voucher; George Hotel, Meal for two; Marsden Hudds Central Lodge, One night double room and breakfast: Subject to availability; W and T Johnson, Cash and Worsted Suit Length, Waterstones, Two football books; Wheelsbrook, Five litre car wash and wax; Woods Music Shop, Leather music case and four music books.
