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WORLD NEWS Monday 8 May 2023

Digitalization project for Maybelline Arends- Aruba’s Tiger Taekwondo Academy
Croes Collection has been completed makes historic achievements in the

Dominican Republic

With great pride, we received the the Cadet and Junior categories.
During a period of almost two years, The material that was digitalized news of the participation of Tiger
Mr. Ivan Quandus worked on the includes cassettes, DAT tapes, mini- Taekwondo Academy in the Pa- Athlete Aleysha Macea has posi-
digitalization of the music collec- discs, CDs, LPs, 45 RPM, reel to reel, namerican competition held in tioned herself in third place in the
tion of Maybelline Arends-Croes. and videos. Santo Domingo, Dominican Re- Cadet-55kg ranking and in the
This great work is now completed public at the end of April. Junior+68 ranking, while Maelynn
and the music is preserved for the Ivan Quandus thanks Prins Bernhard Fradl has also positioned herself
future generations. Cultuurfonds for the Caribbean re- The Academy won a total of 5 in third place in the International
gion for the financial support to re- Bronze medals in the Cadet cat- Ranking.
Maybelline is known in the Aruban alize this project. He thanks them for egory, 1 Silver medal in the Junior
community, not only as teacher at recognizing the great value of digi- category, and 2 Gold medals, Once again, Tiger Taekwondo
IPA (Pedagogical Institute of Aru- talizing Maybelline Arends-Croes’ which were won by Khaleesi Rid- Academy, under the guidance
ba) and Colegio Arubano (High collection and in this way conserv- derstaat in the Infant category. of Masters Teo Rodriguez and
School), but also as director of dif- ing our cultural heritage in a sustain- This is a historic achievement for Jason Ridderstaat, expresses im-
ferent choirs and prominent judge able way. the sport in Aruba, as we have mense gratitude to Marlon Pet-
at different music and singing festi- succeeded in reaching an in- rocchi from Eumar Lock and
vals in Aruba and the Antilles. The photographs show the moment ternational podium at this level Aruba, along with all their driv-
For all of this, she won the highest when Ivan Quandus delivered the of competition. In this way, Ti- ers who have supported them
cultural award from the Prins Ber- results of this work to Maybelline, ger Taekwondo Academy has with each contribution to the
nhard Cultuur Fonds for the Carib- as well as different stages of the achieved international ranking in roundabouts.q
bean region in March of 2022. project.q