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LOCAL Thursday 22 February 2024

The Aruba Tourism Authority honors a loyal visitor at Renaissance

Ocean Suites!

The Aruba Tourism Author- Emerald Ambassador Aruba’s warm and friendly
ity recently had the great (35>years consecutively people always treat her like
pleasure of recognizing an visiting Aruba) family
Emerald Ambassador of Aruba’s restaurants
Aruba. This lovely lady am- The honoree was: Aruba’s nice sandy beach-
bassador wasrespectively es
honored with a certificate Emerald Ambassador “Aruba is my home”
acknowledging her years Mrs. Judy Weinstein from
of visits, loyalty, and love New Jersey, United States Mrs. Weinstein also shared
for the island of Aruba. a wonderful story with
Ms. Marouska Heyliger rep- Ms.Heyliger to what Aruba
The honor certification is resenting the Aruba Tourism means to her:
presented on behalf of the Authority, and staff mem- “45 years ago my late hus-
Minister of Tourism as a to- bers of the Renaissance band and I came here on
ken of appreciation and Ocean Suites bestowed the a trip run by the 32-caret
to say “Masha Danki” to Emerald Ambassador cer- club, a masonic group that
guests who have visited tificate to the honoree, pre- my husband was a mem-
Aruba 10, 20, or 35 years or sented her with gifts, and ber of. We knew no one in
more consecutively. also thanked her for choos- the organization, however,
ing Aruba as her favorite at the end of those 10 days
The three honoring levels vacation destination,as her we were all friends and
are as follows: home away from home. returned every year ever
Distinguished Visitor since. I loved the idea of pecially being away from like to express our sincere
(10>years consecutively Top reasons for returning returning here yearly. We the harsh winter in New Jer- gratitude and apprecia-
visiting Aruba) to Aruba, provided by Mrs. wound up purchasing 2 sey. ARUBA IS MY HOME!” tion to the honoree for her
Goodwill Ambassador Weinstein were: weeks and wound up with continued visits to the“One
(20>years consecutively Aruba’s year-round sunny 9 weeks. I love this place; On behalf of the Aruba Happy Island”.
visiting Aruba) weather the people, food, and es- Tourism Authority, we would

Aruba to me

ORANJESTAD — You are back and we would like to portrait you! By inviting you permission to The Aruba For today we received a
to send us your favorite va- Today Newspaper, Carib- lovely message from our
cation picture while enjoy- bean Speed Printers and lovely visitor Evelyn Brink-
ing our Happy Island. any of its affiliated compa- mann who is visiting us from
nies to use said materials, Germany.
Complete the sentence: as well as names, likeness,
Aruba to me is ……. Send etc. for promotional pur- She wrote to us saying:
your picture with that text poses without compensa- “Aruba to me is… The won-
(including your name and tion. derful and special turtles
where you are from) to: which we will protect for
news@arubatoday.com Last but not least: check the future.”
and we will publish your out our website, Instagram
vacation memory. Isn’t and Facebook page! Thank you for sending us
that a special way to keep Thank you for supporting this wonderful message
your best moments alive? our free newspaper, we sharing what Aruba means
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mitting photos, text or any reader every day again. readers!
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