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             Racehorse named after comedian Ray Ellin


            For  the  past  twelve  years                             Aruba Ray just won.’”                                     Yet.”
            comedian Ray Ellin, known
            as  “Aruba  Ray,”  has  been                              Ellin  told  him  “Of  course                             He  also  executive  pro-
            putting  together  standup                                Aruba Ray won! The horse                                  duced  the  Comedy  Cen-
            comedy  shows  in  Aruba                                  is  much  prettier and  faster                            tral  television  show  “This
            featuring  top  American                                  than I am. I hope you bet                                 Week  at  the  Cellar,”    and
            standup comics from  Net-                                 on her.”                                                  hosted  the  popular  talk
            flix,  America’s  Got  Talent,                                                                                      show “Late Net,” and host-
            HBO and Comedy Central.                                   Ellin  is  a  huge  animal  lov-                          ed the television shows “The
                                                                      er. In addition to doing his                              Movie  Loft,”  “Brain  Fuel,”
            The  shows  are  extremely                                popular  shows,  Ray  has                                 and  “New  York  Now.”  He
            popular in Aruba, and have                                supported  many  causes                                   also produced and direct-
            been named by TripAdvisor                                 in  Aruba,  including  serv-                              ed  the  very  successful  film
            as  Number  One    in  three                              ing as a board member of                                  “The Latin Legends of Com-
            categories  including  “Best                              the  One  Love  Foundation,                               edy,”  distributed  by  20th
            Nightlife Activity” and “Best  trainer  Missy  Beeman  Essig  which  helps  the  dogs  and                          Century Fox.
            Show.”                       told Ellin “When I was trying  cats of Aruba.
                                         to come up with a name for                                                             Aruba  Ray’s  is  located  in
            Last  month  Ellin  received  my  horse,  I  wanted  some-  In the past year, Ellin helped                          Eagle  Beach,  across  from
            what  he  referred  to  as  thing  with  Aruba  in  it,  and  raise  over  $60,000  for  One  dy club in NYC. The come-  Superfood,  at  the  Eagle
            “One of the coolest emails  we love your club. It stuck.”  Love  with  comedy  events  dians are truly some of the  Aruba Resort.
            of my life.”  And it had noth-                            in both Aruba and NYC.       best from the United States.
            ing  to  do  with  comedy.  And the other day, the two                                                              For tickets and schedule go
            “I  found  out  that  a  fan  of  year old filly won her race  And for many years, he has    Ellin  hosts  and  produces  to    www.ArubaComedy.
            the  comedy  club  named  at  Hoosier  Park  in  Indiana.   also led book drives for Aru-  the  shows.  He  is  also  the  com
            their  racehorse  after  me.  I  Ellin  was  over  the  moon.  ban students.           host  of  the  podcast  “Wild
            was like WOW. That is really  “A  friend  of  mine  texted                             Nights  on  the  Prairie.”  He  And  if  you  go  to  the  race
            awesome.”                    me asking ‘Do you have a  Aruba  Ray’s  Comedy  is  produced  a  feature    film  track, bet on Aruba Ray!.q
                                         horse?? Because I just saw  the same quality show you  coming  out  later  this  year
            Indeed,  horse  owner  and  a race, and a horse named  would find at a top come-       called  “No  Longer,  Not


            Fun facts about cacti hedges “Trankera”


            (Oranjestad)  -  When  off-                                                            pruning  hedges,  flowers  play  that  big  of  a  role  in
            roading  in  inland  Aruba,                                                            and  seeds  were  removed,  Aruba’s  agriculture  any-
            you may notice some cacti                                                              which limits propagation to  more,  our  environment  still
            hedges    around    various                                                            a minimum.                   reaps the benefits of these
            properties  or  lined  up  by                                                                                       long-standing natural struc-
            certain  pathways.  These                                                              So, though trankeras don’t  tures.
            man-made  hedges  are
            called “trankera” and play
            an  important  role  in  main-
            taining our flora and fauna.

            The  trankera  dates  to  co-  the  cunucu  vegetation  or  development,    however
            lonialism, where settlers es-
                                         cattle.                      this  proved  to  be  benefi-
            tablished  several  ‘cunucu’                              cial for our flora and fauna.
            (farm)  on  the  island.  Peo-
                                         Nowadays,  trankeras  are  Naturally  developed  flora
            ple either used stone walls   less  common,  and  those  around  the  hedges  offers
            or  trankera  as  a  fence  to
                                         that still stand are often not  more shelter for fauna. An-
            ward off strangers and wild   maintained.  On  the  sur-  other  aspect  is  the  propa-
            animals  that  can  feed  on
                                         face this seems like a bad  gation     process.   When
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