The Sheila Files: Ashanti Appointed Long Island Tourism Ambassador

by GreasyGuide on July 24, 2008

Nassau County native Ashanti at the Bon Voyage event for The Island Next Door campaign in NYC

On Tuesday R&B chick Ashanti was appointed as an official tourism ambassadors for her hometown of Nassau County on New York’s Long Island. The tourism campaign pitches Nassau as “The Island Next Door” and is targeted at visitors to the city. Ashanti is native to Glen Cove, located on Long Island’s North Shore. During Tuesday’s news conference at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, she was given an orange blazer with a tourism patch by County Executive Thomas Suozzi to signify her new position.

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Bali Private Villa March 17, 2009 at 5:41 am

waw, good slogan “The Island Next Door” maybe 2009 Bali Island have slogan too about tourism

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