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The 8th annual Bartenders Contest is coming to Plaza Betico Croes on Friday,
April 27th, announced Chido Henriquez on behalf of ABA, the
Aruba Bartender Association at a press conference, in the presence of last year's winner Chris
Semeleer and Fernando Kock, ABA's President. The press conference was held
at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. The bartenders' contest was originally created
in cooperation with the Aruba Tourism Authority, informs Henriquez, who is currently the
association's treasurer. It launched eight years ago when One Cool Summer, the
island's off-season promotional campaign was conceived. Pete Christiaans, a veteran
master-mixer from the Holiday Inn walked confidently away with the crown. Since then many
memorable fancy drinks have been mixed such as 
A troop of waiters roam through the restaurant with choice cuts of grilled
beef, chicken, lamb, pork & sausage. All selections are slow roasted over open
flame, seasoned to perfection and accompanied by an extravagant thirty-item salad bar
where you can keep sampling until your beg for mercy, all for an inclusive price,
excluding dessert and beverages. 
Salad Bar Selections,
some are seasonal: Many freshly cut vegetables and dressings, Grilled Marinated Eggplant,
Deviled Eggs, Texas Potato Salad, Cold Pasta Salad, Cous-Cous, Cole Slaw, Corn & Bean
Succotash, Imported Hearts of Palm, Tangy
Sunday April's fools day was no joke, it was serious fun, as in fundraising. The
Rotary Club members were out in their distinctively colorful tee-shirts cooking meals,
selling flea market items, raffling houses, pouring drinks, all for charitable causes.
Among participating restaurants dedicating all proceed to help the community: 
Then the limbo dancer- fire eater
arrives on the scene. Imbert Morisson hails from Trinidad. His specialty?
Slithering under a burning limbo stick hanging low over two empty beer bottles. The show
is made up of guests in the process of acquiring the Limbo Neck Syndrome. They follow
Imbert's happy lead to music finding out how low they could go. For reservations call
#837234, Casa Del Mar, 
Nick Praksma teaches more than Tae-Bo-Karobics
at the Marriott Ocean Club. It's the Body & Mind experience, he explains as
he mixes assorted kicks, chops and uppper cuts with jumping jacks. Nick's classes follow a
nice and comfortable format in which he allows students to warm up, speed up their
metabolism to burn fat, then slow down to stretch as an injury prevention. The classes are
conducted in the shade, on the gorgeous deck overlooking the blue waters. Students consist
of tourists and locals and Nick peppers sessions with his martial art philosophy. His
subjects range from achievement to ambition, to breathing, all 
in relationship to weight loss, physical condition and mental strength. The work
outs are excellent, the pep talks even better! Join Nick Monday, Wednesday &
Friday for an hour of hard work and fun. Classes are conducted courtesy of Rhodana
Security as Nick is one of their top people as well as a popular boxer, fighter on the
island. 
Moderator, artist Stan
Kuperi made some excellent observations at the beginning of his presentation. He
chronicled female
As for the content of the
expo, Kuiperi expressed obvious surprise. There is hardly a mention of One Happy Island in
the works. With over 2000 school kids visiting the exhibition hall, they all had strong
emotional reactions to the work of Amy Silva - trapped Barbie dolls, in a
cage like universe; Rhona Lemminga - steel threaded, beaded ball gown /
contraption; Jana Schagen - little people in a bird cage, hung with a
bridal veil or Osaira Muyale’s outright I never promised you a
rose garden.
The forum agreed Aruba is
fortunate. No violence against women was documented in the exposition. Yet disillusionment
was
temporarily stopped by cancer, but made a terrific comeback during
the Olympics in Australia. Sweatnam wrote to the Armstrong Foundation dedicated
to the fight against prostate cancer and as a result of that correspondence decided to
organize the Aruba Ride for the Roses, here on his native island, modeled upon a
similar one started in Austin Texas, collecting funds for breast cancer research. The
Aruba Ride for the Roses will take place on April 29th starting at 7 a.m. in the
morning at the gate of the Seroe Colorado colony, traveling 25 kilometers to La
Cabana All Suite Beach Resort's parking lot. Additional bikers will also be invited to
join at the Santa Cruz Sport's Hall, or closer to the resort at the
roundabout of Tanki Leendert. Inscription is minimal for kids, Afls 8/Afls 12 for
adults, including a tee shirt and a cool drink or a piece of fruit at the above two
official stops. A flea market, fun bazaar with food tents, bars and game stalls for kids
will be held at the parking lot, helping collect additional resources. Entertainment was
pledged by the Portuguese Community Folkloric Group, the Vee-Formation
and Tipico Amistoso. 
We were asked by the
Kingdom Games to offer a sport to the disabled, reports Rietveld. Tennis is as good as any
other activity, he shares. It allows a wheel chair bound person the freedom to move,
compete, get out of the confinement of his home, besides all the health benefits that are
associated with increased physical activity. Having survived an accident or a disease,
tennis represents the fact that life goes on, he adds, and that some aspects of it are
truly fun. Bolk & Rietveld are members of the Nederland's Lawn Tennis Association.
They are experts in their field. We first teach the disabled how to use their sport wheel
chairs, then we teach them tennis, they explain. This is a double challenge. The sport
wheel chairs are more stable then ordinary ones, they are also expensive, up to $3,500 a
piece. But never mind, the visitors agree. We start teaching, then with improved results
comes the passion for better equipment, better courts and a regular competition schedule.
The local tennis pros will be practicing with kids in wheel chairs, on La Cabana's All
Suite Beach Resort courts. We have 500 players in the Nederland, concludes Rietveld how
many there are in Aruba we don't know, but we are confident tennis will make a difference
in their lives. 
