Charity Parachute Jump – His Way of Saying “Thank You!”

Chris

Sales Coordinator

La Tasca Reading

We live in a world where diseases and pain seem to be unstoppable. New types of cancer are discovered every year and the war against it is far from being over.

Osbein Valenzuela Carrillo, one of the waiters at La Tasca Reading, decided to get involved. And this is not by chance.

Ozzy (how we call him), will leave England soon. FOR GOOD!

He has been living in Reading, Berkshire for the last several years. He met wonderful people here, he made life-time friends and he has great memories.

But he thought he cannot just leave... he has to give something back… as a “Thank you!”.

That is why he decided to do a charity parachute jump, to support NHS Duchess of Kent House (hospice) in Reading.

  Osbein Valenzuela Carrillo (Ozzy)

The unit treats adult patients with cancer and other life-shortening diseases, at no charge according to need.  The hospice provides out-patient, in-patient and day therapy services, which includes respite care and symptom control. 

The jump will take place on 30^th September 2012 in Swindon.

If you would like to encourage Ozzy, please use the comment box below.

If you want to support the jump (he has to pay £370.00 to be allowed to do the jump – all the money goes to charity), we prepared a special box at La Tasca Reading for him.

You can also send donations into his personal bank account:

Bank: Lloyds TSB

Name: Mr. O. Valenzuela Carrillo

Account no.: 20952268

I will keep you updated.

Jump Ozzy, jump!...

Classic Sinatra Evening

Corina

Supervisor

La Tasca Reading

About 2 weeks ago we've had a special Classic Sinatra live music night at La Tasca Reading. Our guest was Ian Gallagher, leading Sinatra impersonator.

To be perfectly honest, I was somehow nervous about that, especially after a nice American couple booked a table for that evening. They told me, when they made the booking, they were huge Sinatra fans and they had also seen him live a few times and also a few impersonators in US.

The day of the event came and the music started flowing. Ian showed up from a staircase, in tuxedo and hat. From the first couple of minutes, he absolutely won everybody over. 

A wonderful voice, topped with an exceptional interaction with the audience, turned the evening into a very successful night for. Everybody was smiling and singing along, customers, members of staff, even next door neighbours, curious to see what was going on.

Songs like My Way and New York, New York even lifted the customers off their seats…

It has been one of those nights when everything just turned out right: the food came right in time, the Sangria was pouring, the entertainment was flawless.

It has really been a magical night. The customers left unanimously incredibly positive feedback.

The nice American couple told me before they left that was the best performance they’d seen, except of course of Sinatra’s himself.

I really hope that we’ll have the opportunity to do this again sometime soon. Many of our regular customers, that were on holidays at that time, when they heard about the event and saw the footage that we recorded, asked us to book another evening.

So I’ve started spreading the news, as the song says… :)