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Thursday 25 June 2020

Staff Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort collected a lot of waste at Hooiberg

with this slogan.”

Let’s be proud of our island
Despite the efforts of the
team to clean up the
area as much as possible it
would not mean anything
if people continue leaving
trash behind. Bucuti & Tara
Beach Resort appeal to the
public to keep public plac-
es clean and also ask other
local companies to take
their community responsi-
bility and clean up areas of
Aruba. Let us demonstrate
that we are proud of our is-
land. If you are interested in
participate as a company,
please contact Nathaly
EAGLE BEACH — Bucuti & of Aruba. They were heart- ies when Aruba was fac- dio and other media chan- Stanley, Sustainability Man-
Tara Beach Resort and its broken by the amount of ing a growing population, nels. We also printed T-shirts ager of the resort. q
team continue with their waste they encountered. but on a smaller scale, the
weekly clean up actions in “There was trash all over island was confronted with
different areas of the island. the place,” owner Ewald the same situation. There
Recently they did a make- Biemans said with a sad was waste everywhere you
over of the Hooiberg and tone in his voice. “Our ef- went. Outside of the fences
apparently that was no un- forts lasted for 90 minutes of houses, on the beaches
necessary luxury. About 45 only simply because we and other public places.
staff members of the resort were out of disposal bags “Our intention with these
cleaned out the area and and the truck was full. It felt clean-ups at that time was
filled a truck with all the quite unsatisfied because to create a sense of nation-
waste that was collected. there was so much more al pride for our island that
waste to collect.” is why we called the cam-
It certainly was a rewarding paign “Aruba is Mine”,”
job for the employees of Reboot of “Aruba is Mine” is as Biemans explains. “The
the resort to make a differ- needed message of this campaign
ence for this beautiful site In the beginning of the 80- was spread out through ra-

It’s A Wrap liver a technical perfect result, moreover moti-
vate with the content and topic as well as the
good energy coming from it.”
ORANJESTAD — Aruba Today created a video
series: ‘Ask Pilar’ which is to be found on Face- The team
book Aruba Today and on our website www. Pilar Flores, 33 years old, is the jolly Video Host
arubatoday.com. Let us introduce to you this of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves doing the videos be-
project and the people behind it. cause she gets to meet a lot of nice people
and to know many interesting places. “I hope
Why a video? Besides our daily printed free with it that people will get to know and love
newspaper, our posts on Facebook and Ins- Aruba the way us locals do.” Flores is Execu-
tagram and our website content we started tive Editor at Bon Dia Newspaper, Aruba To- and I find it very therapeutic to put every-
evaluating the plans for short video’s about a day’s sister, where she is fond of being up to thing aside and work on this piece of metal
year ago. The concept was created by Editor- date on all current happenings and events that helps me move long distances.” Juan Luis
in-Chief Linda Reijnders to add variation to and having the inside information. She has a loves to capture moments with his camera
the product Aruba Today. “There is more to Bachelor of Theology, achieved in Aberdeen, and edit them into a dynamic video.
this island than palm trees and beaches and Scotland and a Masters of Applied Ethics in Video Director of ‘Ask Pilar’ is Editor-in-Chief
in our videos we wish to inform and educate Utrecht, The Netherlands. “In my leisure time Linda Reijnders, working in this current position
the visitor by showing local places of any kind. I like to walk in Arikok National park, play with since July 2017 and before that for six years
We are all new to this, the goal is not to de- my three cats, color and spend time with my with the local Dutch newspaper Amigoe di
boyfriend.” Aruba as a journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the
The one capturing the images with his camera magazine H&H. “I love working in the media,
and edit them into the end result is our Vid- I love to write, create, connect, inform and
eographer Juan Luis Pinto Sotter, Marketing educate. Working with young, talented and
Major at the University of Aruba. “I chose mar- motivated people like Juan Luis and Pilar is a
keting because I wanted a career that kept blessing to me. We really enjoy making these
me physically and mentally active. As a ju- Aruba Peeks and we for sure hope that rubs
nior marketer there is a lot of moving around, off to the viewer.”
I can’t begin to imagine what the real world Check us out on Facebook Aruba Today or
will be like.” His hobbies include photography, the website www.arubatoday.com and do
gaming, and working on his car. “I am not a not forget to like and share! Thank you for your
car mechanic, however YouTube helps a lot support. q