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                       Tuesday 19 May 2020

                                                                                                  Global Running Day June 3rd



                                                                                                   organization  receives  re-  June 3rd.
                                                                                                   sults by email and through
                                                                                                   social media. “It is a great  Do they support Charity?
                                                                                                   pleasure  to  see  so  many  Yes!  50%  of  the  revenues
                                                                                                   positive  reactions  in  these  from the Virtual Aruba Run
                                                                                                   uncertain  circumstances,”  will  be  donated  to  the
                                                                                                   says  Kees  van  Muiswinkel,  charity  'CEDE  Aruba'.  They
                                                                                                   Chairman  Foundation  Run  help  to  stock  the  Aruba
            ORANJESTAD    —  Join  mil-  can. But it also emphasizes  Brazil,  Canada,  Colombia,  in the Sun.                  food  bank  with  food  sup-
            lions of people around the  the  importance  of  leading  Curacao,  Great  Britain,                                 plies and hygiene products
            world in celebrating Global  a more active lifestyle.     The  Netherlands,  Poland,  Is  the  Virtual  Aruba  Run  to support the most vulner-
            Running  Day,  which  takes                               Spain,  Suriname    Trinidad  Open?                       able groups, such as the el-
            place on the first Wednes-   Participate  in  this  unique  and  Tobago,  Czech  Re-   Yes!  You  can  register  and  derly and children in vulner-
            day in June. It’s a celebra-  first  Virtual  Aruba  Run.  Al-  public,  United  Arab  Emir-  run  your  race  every  day.  able situations.
            tion  that  encourages  peo-  ready  runners  and  walkers  ates and the United States  The  last  race  day  is  on  For more info check www.
            ple to run as much as they  from  Aruba,  Bangladesh,  registered.  Every  day  the  Global  running  day  on  virtualarubarun.com. q
            Thank you front liners!



            ORANJESTAD  —  Last  Sunday,  May  17,  all  front  liners  of
            the  Dr.  Horacio  E.  Oduber  Hospital  were  honored  with
            an  amazing  video  mapping  on  Aruba’s  hospital  walls.
            At 8pm on the live tunes of band Le Groove the island
            showed her gratefulness to the health workers during this
            COVID-19 crises.q
























               Share your message from home



               ORANJESTAD — In these difficult
               times we would like to reach out
               to  our  friends  abroad  who  were
               supposed to spend their tropical
               vacation  on  Aruba  or  who  had
               to  break  up  their  vacation  due
               to the COVID-19 situation. Aruba
               Today invites you to send us your
               picture  and  words  expressing
               your memory of our island or your
               dream vacation for the future.

               Send us your picture(s) together
               with  completing  the  sentence:
               Aruba  to  me  is  ……..  (Email:
               news@arubatoday.com).  Please
               do  note:  By  submitting  photos,
               text  or  any  other  materials,  you   Today we share a wonderful mes-
                                                 sage from Roger and Jacqueline
               give  permission  to  The  Aruba                                                                                   In   conjunction   with
               Today  newspaper,  Caribbean      Meyer, Amstelveen                                                                Ascension  Day,  Aruba
               Speed Printers and any of its affili-  Netherlands. They wrote:     “Aruba is to me: My favorite place to be. We   Today   will   not   be
               ated companies to use said ma-                                      love our Costa Linda family! We miss them and   published on Thursday,
               terials, as well as names, likeness,   “Aruba  to  us  during  this  period:  wish the best for them. We hope we'll be able   May  21st,  2020.  We
                                                                                   to stay at our home away from home for our
               etc.  for  promotional  purposes   ‘Locked  in  a  small  bowl’.  To  all   entire three weeks next year!”         will  resume  out  regular
               without compensation.             our  dear  friends  in  Aruba:  Stay                                             printing  schedule  on
                                                 safe  and  hope  to  see  in  good   Jim and Carol Dienhart, Harrisburg, NC.     Friday,   May,   22nd,
                                                 health again next year!”q                                                        2020.
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