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A14 LOCAL
Saturday 9 February 2019

It’s A Wrap

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

THE TEAM
Pilar Flores, 33 years old, is the jolly
Video Host of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves
doing the videos because she gets
to meet a lot of nice people and
to know many interesting places. “I
hope with it that people will get to
know and love Aruba the way us