The Fundación Bulevar de las Estrellas will install on the Ave. Winston Churchill boulevard eight star plaques honoring Dominican show business stars. The first eight stars to be honored are Freddy Beras Goico, Johnny Ventura, Juan Luis Guerra, Julio Alberto Hernández, Monina Solá, and the late Eduardo Brito, Casandra Damirón, and María Montez. The stars are said to cost RD$30,000 each. The artists will be honored with their stars on Friday, 8 May shortly after the 6 pm inauguration of the RD$26 million boulevard built in the administrator of Mayor Rafael Suberví Bonilla. Suberví is a former Minister of Tourism who is now opting to be a congressman for his home town of Barahona. He aspires to be President of the Republic some time in the future. Transfusion and Tabu Teck rock groups Los Toros Band merengue orchestra will perform on occasion of the formal opening of the tree-studded boulevard. The event will be transmitted nationwide by RTVD. The Fundación Bulevar de las Estrellas is in charge of every year choosing eight to 10 artists from television, music, radio, theater, movies and the plastic arts. Journalist Carlos Batista Matos is in charge of the selection committee.
