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LOCAL Tuesday 8 december 2020

My Aruba story … memories of a loyal follower

Aruba Today welcomes readers to our readers. Scott L. from the US has a thing
participate in our newspaper. Now with Santa Claus and also with
that we are open to visitors again What do you do? helping kids. He is kick starting a
after the three months of lockdown It’s easy. Mail us your vacation campaign with a simple goal:
we are all ears to know about you. picture(s) together with your Aruba to have a portion of all sales
How do you feel to be back or story (Email: news@arubatoday. using Santa Claus go towards
maybe this is your first time in Aru- com) and we will publish this in our helping sick kids. Currently, he
ba? Let us know! Send us a picture newspaper. This for sure is a great is riding around this island on a
and tell us about your experience vacation memory to take home bike dressed like Santa Claus
because we love to share this with with you. (real beard), and he plans on
doing over 1,000 miles. “I do
feel my work could benefit the
people of Aruba, mostly be-
cause this is where I discovered
the true meaning of Santa. If
the people of Aruba could
have this conversation about
a better way to use the image
of Santa, it might force other
countries to do the same.” For
years he wanted to share his
work with people on the island.
The first thing he did when Scott
got home from Aruba in De-
cember 2007 was writing down
his Aruba experiences and how
that helped changing the way
he saw Santa. Stay tuned for
some more stories about Santa
Scott. Taken before Scott came to Aruba.
Pic taken before Scott bleached his beard The couple in the pic just got engaged
at the Tree, and wanted a pic with
Happy HO HO HOlidays,
Santa to celebrate the moment.