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Aruba to me
ORANJESTAD — You are
back and we would like to
portrait you! By inviting you
to send us your favorite va-
cation picture while enjoy-
ing our Happy Island.
Complete the sentence:
Aruba to me is ……. Send
your picture with that text
(including your name and
where you are from) to:
news@arubatoday.com
and we will publish your
vacation memory. Isn’t
Aruba to me that a special way to keep
your best moments alive?
Please do note: By submit-
ORANJESTAD — “My name is Tony Racioppo and I'm ting photos, text or any oth-
from Manhasset, NY! Aruba to me is a second home. er materials, you give per-
We came to Aruba for the first time in 1975 when there mission to The Aruba Today
were only three major hotels! I remember driving Newspaper, Caribbean
past the Holiday Inn and the paved road ended and Speed Printers and any of
I thought where am I? All of a sudden we saw chick- its affiliated companies to
ens, goats and even a few donkeys! Oh my! use said materials, as well
as names, likeness, etc. for
We returned in 1981 and have been coming promotional purposes with-
ever since. This is our 40th year in row! Over the out compensation.
years we have met, and become friends with Last but not least: check
many local residents. In my opinion, the Aruban out our website, Instagram
people, are some of the nicest people I've ever and Facebook page!
met! There is nothing phony about them! What Thank you for supporting
you see, the caring and thoughtfulness, is what our free newspaper, we
you get. They have always made us feel so wel- strive to make you a happy
comed. We hope and pray that this wonderful reader every day again.
island continues to prosper!”q Have a look at this great
message and images
shared with us by Mary and Don Alhart from Pittsford:
“I enclose a copy of this year’s Holiday Greeting
Card which describes our love affair with Aruba—for
more than a half century. As you can see- we honey-
mooned there in 1970. You carried an article in the
paper when we celebrated our 40th Wedding Anni-
versary in Aruba. (March, 2010) We plan to return
March 5-20- at the Marriott Surf Club and finish the cel-
ebration that was interrupted last March.”q
