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LOCALMonday 28 December 2015
TEDxCuracao is set for March 2016
WILLEMSTAD - The TEDx- have found collaboration We can also grow together
platform stands for Ideas grounds with TEDxCuracao, by sharing our knowledge.
worth spreading and Ac- our direct neighbor island The first step in this endeav-
tions worth doing. This only in the Caribbean. Aruba or has been taken. TEDx-
makes sense if collabora- and Curacao are facing Curacao will organize their
tion is there as well; to share the same challenges and event the 12th of March
information and grow to- we can learn from each with the theme Bridging the
gether. other’s best practices and Gap.
TEDxAruba is very proud to failures made in the past.
TEDxAruba was present
and gave a short presenta- fun in the world and we
tion at the launching event cannot wait to tune in the
of TEDxCuracao this past 12th of March to learn all
November. We wish TEDx- about how to ‘Bridge the
Curacao all the luck and Gap’! q
Loyal Guests Thank Aichel Lynch
And Ruben Garcia for their help!
EAGLE BEACH - La Ca- front desk to see Aichel
bana Beach Resort & Casi- Lynch, and explain the
no Timeshare owners, Tom challenge to her.
& Pat, encountered pro- She went into action im-
found kindness on the is- mediately by calling the
land of Aruba. On their last phone, and amazingly
night here, they attended it was answered by the
the Plaza Cafe Christmas Christmas Show’s EMCEE
show along with 300 other Ruben Garcia who was
people, taking pictures happy to return the phone
and enjoying the moment. to the hotel a few minutes
Upon leaving, Tom un- later. The story only comes
knowingly left his cell to show, says Tom, how
phone where he was sit- great the people of Aruba
ting, and went back with are, when strangers found
Pat to the hotel. and turned the phone
He realized the phone was over, to Ruben Garcia,
missing when he reached who went out of his way
his room, and jumped to return it, and most of all,
back into his car, to return La Cabana Beach Resort
to the Plaza Cafe immedi- & Casino executive Aichel
ately. Lynch, who took the initia-
There the security person- tive to find it.
nel did not have any infor- Tom made it on time to the
mation and asked Tom to plane with his phone!!
come back the following It is very clear why Aruba
day, but Tom was leaving is named ONE HAPPY IS-
the island and considered LAND, he says, it’s all about
the phone lost. its people!!
The next morning, after With grateful hearts, Tom
breakfast and before go- and Pat, La Cabana Own-
ing to the airport, he de- ers, Week 46.q
cided to stop back at the
