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The winner of the July EuskalKultura.com raffle have been chosen.  The five prizes go to respectively, Brazil (Modern Basque History), Argentina (Burgaintzi CD), Uruguay (Aita Deitzen zen Gizona), Spain (CD by Sonia de los Santos) and Argentina (sticker collection).  This time participants wrote from more than a dozen countries, from Chile to Canada and Australia to Germany. 

Donostia-San Sebastián. These are the prizes that were included in July’s raffle:

1. The book Modern Basque History: Eighteenth Century to the Present by Cameron Watson and published by the Center for Basque Studies at UNR, 517 pages
2. The CD Dantzaz-ele by Burganitzi, a recording that although done in 2005, that is a must in the music library of any dantzari or fan of Basque dance, with 21 dances from the notebooks of Pierre Lamaison, includes dances from the fandango and arin-arin to mutxikoak, sorginak, etc.
3. The book Aita deitzen zen gizona (Pamiela, 2016), written by Basque-American Joan Errea, that tells the story of this Basque family in the United States in Basque and in verse, with a prologue  written by Dr. Pello Salaburu
4. The CD My Trip: From New Leon to New York Island by Sonia de los Santos that includes a remarkable version of the song ”Txoriak Txori” done by the Mexican singer who now resides in New York.
5. A collection of Basque stickers and bumper stickers to stick on cars, Windows, Books or wherever you’d like to stick them

These went to the following individuals:

1. Graziely Rodrigues de Freitas, from Jardim Europa (Brazil)
2. César M. Churruca, from Junín, province of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
3. Arantxa Bastarrica, from Montevideo (Uruguay)
4. Ramón Usarbarrena Ruiz de Larramendi, from Madrid (Spain)
5. Carlos E. Garanzini Mendiola, from Sarmiento, province of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Raffle entries came from very diverse places all over the world.  As usual, a large part came from Argentina.  Here is a list of countries and cities that are readers participated from:

Germany: Berlin; Canada, Ontario (Toronto); Ireland, Sligo (Maugheraboy); Argentina: Buenos Aires (CABA), province of Buenos Aires (Ramos Mejia, Carhué, La Plata, Castelli, Junin, San Fernando, Cañuelas, Matheu-Escobar, Mar del Plata, Arrecifes, Coronel Pringles, Chivilcoy, Chacabuco, Azul General Rodriguez, Maipú, Banfield, Ayacucho, Bahía Blanca, Saladillo, San Nicolás de los Arroyos and Pergamino), Neuquén (Neuquén), Entre Ríos (Paraná), Tucumán (San Miguel de Tucumán), Santiago del Estero (Santiago del Estero) , Chaco (Resistencia), Pampa (Santa Rosa and General Pico), Rio Negro (Bariloche and Viedma), Cordoba (Cordoba and Villa Maria), Misiones (Posadas and Corpus Christi), San Juan (Rawson), Mendoza (Mendoza), Santa Fe (Santa Fe, Sarmiento, Esperanza and Rosario), and Chubut (Puerto Madryn and Comodoro Rivadavia); Venezuela, Caracas and Carabobo (Valencia); Colombia, Cundinamarca (Chia); El Salvador (San Salvador); United States, Ohio (Bexley), California (Merced and Bakersfield), Illinois (Urbana), Florida (Miami); Idaho (Boise), Washington, DC; and Virginia (Burke); Catalunya, Barcelona and Barbera del Vallés; Spain, Valladolid, Madrid and Alcobendas; Brazil, São Paulo (São Paulo) and Goiânia-Goiás (Jardim Europe); Australia, NSW (Sydney and Bathurst), Uruguay, Montevideo, Spa Santa Ana and San José de Mayo; Chile, Providencia, Las Condes and Valparaiso; and the Basque Country. Zornotza-Amorebieta, Elgoibar, Trintxerpe, Pasaia, Lekeitio, Leioa, Donostia, Arbizu, Bilbo, Hendaia, Iruñea-Pamplona and Sarriguren-Egües.

In August, as every year, we will be working behind the scenes and won’t be publishing the Bulletin.

Zorionak to our winners.  There will be another raffle soon.

Segi bizkor!