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Friday 21 July 2017
Loyal
Island
Guests
Honored at
the Aruba
Beach Club
EAGLE BEACH - Recently
the Aruba Tourism Author-
ity had the great pleasure
of honoring a large family
of loyal and friendly visitors
of Aruba as Goodwill Am-
bassadors and Emerald
Ambassadors at the Aruba
Beach Club. The symbolic
honorary titles are present-
ed in the name of the Min-
ister of Tourism as a token
of appreciation to guests
who visit Aruba for 20-to-34
and 35-or-more consecu- Carla
tive years. The honorees and Alexis Raynoha Cam- Beach Club and they love like being at their vacation
were Mr. Saverio and Mrs. pagna, all from Nevada. Aruba very much because ‘home-away-from-home.’
Denise Campagna, and These special visitors are
Gallo-Campagna loyal members of the Aruba
of the friendly people, fun The certificates were pre-
in the sun, the climate, the sented by Mr. Jonathan
beaches and the restau- Boekhoudt representing
rants. They say that being the Aruba Tourism Authority
on Aruba and staying at together with friends from
the Aruba Beach Club is the Aruba Beach Club.q
‘Sunrise Solar Park’ is one of the
Biggest in the Caribbean Region
(www.greenaruba.org) centralized Solar Photo-
SAN NICOLAS - To further voltaic Integrated Project’
raise the sustainability is to construct a ground
bar in the Aruban energy mounted solar PV system
mix, WEB Aruba N.V re- in San Nicolas, east side of
cently was handed over the island, with a capacity
92.000 square meter of of 5.9 megawatts.
land, which was previously In addition to contributing
owned by the Refinery of to a more sustainable ener-
Aruba (‘RDA’), following gy mix, this project supports
the contract signing of a the government’s agenda
5.9 megawatt solar project of repurposing part of the
with partner ISOTRON and refinery premises.
the official groundbreaking This project brings WEB Aru-
of the ‘Sunrise Solar Park’ in ba closer to their goal of
the east side of the island completing all solar energy
of Aruba in Lago Heights, projects that are part of the
San Nicolas. Aruba Renewable Energy
WEB Aruba is proud to initi- Strategy (‘ARES’) and port-
ate the ‘Sunrise Solar Park’ folio. WEB Aruba’s mission is
project. to reach an average of 5%
This is a significant event solar energy penetration.
for WEB Aruba because of WEB Aruba expresses grati-
the 16 million florin invest- tude to all its departments
ment, and the complete who have also contributed
ownership of a project of to the development of this
this magnitude. The Sunrise project and also, the Gov-
Solar Park will be one of the ernment of Aruba, Utilities
biggest solar parks on the Aruba N.V, N.V. Elmar, ISO-
island and the Caribbean TRON, Aruba Investment
Region. Bank, Brown Lawyers, Re-
The solar project is monu- finery of Aruba and CITGO
mental because it states who have played a fun-
the lowest price achieved damental role in making
for solar photovoltaic (PV) the ‘Sunrise Solar Park’ be-
on Aruba to date. come a reality for the is-
The main focus of the ‘De- land of Aruba.q