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Monday 14 January 2019

It’s A Wrap

doing the videos because she gets gaming, and working on his car. “I
to meet a lot of nice people and am not a car mechanic, however
to know many interesting places. “I YouTube helps a lot and I find it
hope with it that people will get to very therapeutic to put everything
know and love Aruba the way us aside and work on this piece of
locals do.” Flores is Executive Edi- metal that helps me move long dis-
tor at Bon Dia Newspaper, Aruba tances.” Juan Luis loves to capture
Today’s sister, where she is fond moments with his camera and edit
of being up to date on all current them into a dynamic video.
happenings and events and hav- Video Director of ‘Ask Pilar’ is Edi-
ing the inside information. She has tor-in-Chief Linda Reijnders, work-
a Bachelor of Theology, achieved ing in this current position since July
in Aberdeen, Scotland and a Mas- 2017 and before that for six years
ters of Applied Ethics in Utrecht, The with the local newspaper in Dutch,
Netherlands. “In my leisure time I Amigoe di Aruba as a journalist
like to walk in Arikok National park, and Editor-in-Chief of the maga-
play with my three cats, color and zine H&H. “I love working in the
spend time with my boyfriend.” media, I love to write, create, con-
The one capturing the images with nect, inform and educate. Working
his camera and edit them into with young, talented and motivat-
the end result is our Videographer ed people like Juan Luis and Pilar
Juan Luis Pinto Sotter, Marketing is a blessing to me. We really enjoy
ORANJESTAD — Aruba Today re- or maybe even suggest a location/ Major at the University of Aruba. “I making these Aruba Peeks and we
cently launched it’s very first video topic for a video. Just ask our host chose marketing because I want- for sure hope that rubs off to the
of the series ‘Ask Pilar’ at Facebook Pilar through Facebook comments ed a career that kept me physical- viewer.”
Aruba Today and on our website or messenger. ly and mentally active. As a junior Check us out on Facebook Aruba
www.arubatoday.com. Let us intro- marketer there is a lot of moving Today or the website www.aruba-
duce to you this fresh new project THE TEAM around, I can’t begin to imagine today.com and do not forget to
and the people behind it. Pilar Flores, 33 years old, is the jolly what the real world will be like.” like and share! Thank you for your
Video Host of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves
Why a video? Besides our daily His hobbies include photography, support. q
printed free newspaper, our posts
on Facebook and Instagram and
our website content we started
evaluating the plans for short vid-
eo’s about a year ago. The con-
cept was created by Editor-in-
Chief Linda Reijnders to add varia-
tion to the product Aruba Today.
“There is more to this island than
palm trees and beaches and in our
videos we wish to inform and edu-
cate the visitor by showing local
places of any kind. We are all new
to this, but goal is not to deliver a
technical perfect result, moreover
motivate with the content and
topic as well as the good energy
coming from it.” Aruba Today will
publish two or more videos per
week and the concept will be in-
teractive. Meaning that as the title
of the video ‘Ask Pilar ‘already re-
veals, the viewer has the tool to ac-
tually ask about the topics shown