Bon Bini! Aruba is Waiting for You This Fall.Business & Travel Editors/Sports Writers ORANJESTAD Oranjestad (ôrän`jəstät'), town and port (1991 pop. 20,045), capital and administrative center of Aruba, in the Lesser Antilles. , Aruba--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2002 Aruba's fall season is sizzling siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. with activities. From music festivals and drag races drag race n. A race between two cars to determine which can accelerate faster from a standstill. [From drag, an automobile (slang). to golf, kite surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability. , paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: and catamaran catamaran (kăt'əmərăn`), watercraft made up of two connected hulls or a single hull with two parallel keels. Originally used by the natives of Polynesia, the catamaran design was adopted by Western boat builders in the 19th cent. competitions, there's an event for everyone in Aruba Aruba (ər  `bə), island, autonomous part of the Netherlands (2005 est. pop. 71,600), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), in the Lesser Antilles off the coast of Venezuela. . Bon Bini
means "welcome" in Papiamento Papiamento, or Papiamentu, is the primary language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (the so-called ABC islands).Papiamento is a creole language whose lexicon is drawn firstly from Portuguese and Spanish (about 60%) and from Dutch (about , and Aruba hopes to give visitors a warm welcome with these fall events:
August 17-21 ARUBA INTERNATIONAL PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT
Professional and amateur golfers team up in
this two-day, 36-hole tournament that
includes gifts, prizes, special events and
parties. To learn more, contact Tierra Del Sol
at 011-297-867800 or e-mail
tierra.rent@setarnet.aw.
August 30-31 TEXACO ONE COOL SUMMER INTERNATIONAL DRAG RACES
Drag race qualifying competition takes
place at the International Raceway Palo
Marga. For additional information, e-mail
draginaruba@hotmail.com or visit their
website at http://www.draginaruba.com
August 30- ARUBA KITE SURFING INVITATIONAL 2002
September 1 The Kite Surfing Invitational will feature
participants from Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire.
Professional kiteboarders Jeff Tobias, from the
United States, and Martin Vari, from Argentina,
are invited to perform extreme kite surfing
demonstrations. For additional information,
contact ATA Special Events at 011-297-823777 or
e-mail a.boekhoudt@aruba.com.
September 18-23 INTERNATIONAL PAINTBALL COMPETITION
The National Professional Paintball League, an
organization that sanctions
professional/amateur level paintball tournaments,
will sponsor this event. The competition will
consist of five men paintball teams competing for
points on world ranking. Contact Mr. Jossito
Mansur at 011-297-826747 or email
arubaopen@aol.com. You can also contact ATA
Special Events at 011-297-823777 or e-mail
a.boekhoudt@aruba.com for additional information.
September 27-28 SEPTEMBER CLASH DRAG RACES
National point series event at International
Raceway Palo Marga in San Nicolas. For additional
information, e-mail draginaruba@hotmail.com or
visit their website at
http://www.draginaruba.com.
October 11-12 ARUBA MUSIC FESTIVAL
A spectacular, star studded, two-day
international festival. Two legendary American
rock performers, Pat Benatar and The Doobie
Brothers will perform for the concert of the
year. Contact ATA Special Events at
011-297-823777or e-mail a.boekhoudt@aruba.com
for additional information.
October 31- CERBES BALASHI SUPER NATIONALS 2002 DRAGRACES
November 2-3 International drag race event featuring
competitors from the United States, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, Curacao, Bonaire and St. Maarten.
Takes place at International Raceway Palo Marga
in San Nicolas. For additional information,
e-mail draginaruba@hotmail.com or visit their
website at http://www.draginaruba.com.
November 2 SIDNEY PONSON AND CALVIN MADURO CELEBRITIES
SOFTBALL GAMES 2002
Baltimore Orioles Sidney Ponson and Calvin
Maduro unite Major League Baseball players
together for a charity softball game that
will benefit the youth of Aruba. Contact
ATA Special Events at 011-297-823777 or
e-mail a.boekhoudt@aruba.com for additional
information.
November 8-16 ARUBA INTERNATIONAL CATAMARAN REGATTA
The 11th Annual International Catamaran
Regatta event held on the island. Aruba's
turquoise waters will be adorned with the
colorful sails of catamarans from Europe,
North and South America competing. Contact
ATA Special Events at 011-297-823777 or
e-mail a.boekhoudt@aruba.com . For
additional information, visit
http://www.arubaregatta.com.
Aruba is a vacationer's paradise located in the heart of the Dutch Caribbean, 15 miles north of Venezuela Venezuela (vĕnəzwā`lə, Span. vānāswā`lä), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, republic (2005 est. pop. 25,375,000), 352,143 sq mi (912,050 sq km), N South America. and only two and a half hours by air from Miami. Ideally located outside the hurricane belt The hurricane belt is an area in the Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, which is prone to hurricanes during the Atlantic hurricane season. The only places in the Caribbean that are not in the hurricane belt are the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Bonaire, , Aruba boasts great weather, cooling trade winds and friendly people. For more information on planning a trip to Aruba, contact the Aruba Tourism Authority at 1-800-TO-ARUBA, or visit our website at http://www.aruba.com. This material is distributed by Everett Everett. 1 City (1990 pop. 35,701), Middlesex co., E Mass., an industrial suburb of Boston, on the Mystic River; settled c.1643, set off from Malden 1870, inc. as a city 1892. Clay Associates on behalf of Aruba's Ministry of Tourism and Transportation. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C. |
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