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Monday 1 april 2019

Honoring of loyal and friendly visitors at Barcelo Aruba

ORANJESTAD— Jonathan Boekhoudt of the
Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure
to honor a lovely couple as Distinguished
Visitors. The Distinguished Visitor certificate is
presented on behalf of the Minister of Tourism,
as a token of appreciation to the guests who
visit Aruba 10 years and more consecutively.

The honorees were Neal & Kristine Abrams
resident from Massachusetts.

The honorees stated that they love coming
to the island especially for the lovely people,
the beautiful sunsets, the wonderful staff at
Barcelo and the direct flight from Boston.

De Cuba together with Sandra Steba
representative of Barcelo Aruba presented
the certificates to the honorees, and also
handed over some presents and thanked
them for choosing Aruba as their favorite
vacation destination and as their home away
from home.q

April is Autism Awareness month

ORANJESTAD – World Autism Awareness On April 7th, 2019 the foundation in part-
Day is an internationally recognized nership with Patrishi Sports will be orga-
day, which takes place April 2nd every nizing a Blue Race Run & Walk.
year, with the purpose to encourage ev- This 5km run will start at 6:00 am at the
eryone to raise awareness about people Fisherman’s Hut in Noord. The move-
with Autism Spectrum Disorder through- ment is Life foundation also joined this
out the world. It was designated by the cause and will be providing dry-fit shirts
United Nations General Assembly. to all participants.
For more information please visit www.
The foundation for Autism Awareness in thebluerace.com
Aruba the (FAA) unites with partners all
over the world to celebrate this day. The The foundation is also conducting a sur-
foundation will be holding a ceremony vey about the knowledge and aware-
called ‘Light it up Blue’ in front of the ness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
goverment office building at 7:00 PM. in our community, which consists of 10
The building will be light up in blue. This simple questions.
is a worldwide event organized by the Based on the information gathered the
Autism Speaks organization. foundation will be able to determine
their points of attention to this matter.
FAA would like to invite the entire com- During the entire month the foundation
munity of Aruba to wear something blue will be organizing several workshops on
(royal blue) on this day which is the color how to deal with persons with autism.
that symbolizes autism. Also businesses
and houses can be decorated in blue For more information check out the
as a support to this cause. The ‘light it up Facebook page Fundacion Autismo
blue’ will be the highlight of the night. Aruba.q