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• Disc Golf Tour
• Book Review

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Letters From Ralph

Ralph J. Mouw, a native of Orange City, Iowa, never forgot his roots - even when he was halfway across the world during World War II. In this collection of letters, you'll find a firsthand account of what life was like during the war at home and overseas. Although letters were heavily censored during the war years, the editors have added comments to place them in context.

San Diego Vacation Rental

Planning on a vacation in San Diego? One of Jubon Juweelen's co-owners has a vacation rental 10 blocks from Ocean Beach near downtown San Diego. This is a beautifully furnished 3 bedroom, 2 and 1/2 bath home ready to provide a comfortable stay for you and your family. If you are interested, you can see its availablity at https://www.airbnb.com/

tulip festival schedule
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

The new Tulip Time brochures are in. I will summarize the schedule for this year. The festival always occurs on the 3rd Weekend of May. This year it will be May 18, 19, and 20. If I don't specify a special date behind an activity it occurs every day during the festival.

7:00 am
Fly-in Breakfast (a little aside -- I don't know how many of you know, but at one time I had an active pilot's license. I was the first woman to fly into a fly-in breakfast in eastern Iowa and still have the trophy I received for doing so). (SAT)

7:50 am
    Tulip Festival Road Race (SAT)

8:00 am
    Tour de Tulips (SAT) -- This is a new event that was added last year and is a bicycle tour of the tulips around Orange City.

9:00 am
    Vogel Old Mill
Dutch Museum Private Tours
Antique Tractor Show
Pedicabs
Horse-Drawn Trolley Tours
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park

9:30 am
    Century Home

10:00 am
    Tulip Town Bulb Company
Antique Model Tractor Display
ArtBurst (FRI & SAT)
Dutch Museum
Straatmarkt (Street Market) THIS IS WHERE WE WILL BE. Jubon Juweelen again will be working with the city to sell Dutch items, especially wooden shoes. We will be located in a cute little building located on the street just north of the Court House (just west of the city hall). We are planning on opening Wednesday evening again (because the night show will be located in the City Hall again this year) and we will reopen Thursday - Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to around 8:00 p.m. (depending on the crowd).

10:30 am
    Dutch Dozen Performance
Dutch Street Organ

11:00 am
    Tulip Talk in Windmill Park
Carnival Rides Open (FRI)
Petting Zoo (SAT)
Community Worship Service (SUN)

11:30 am
    Dutch Dozen Performance

12:00 pm
    Fietsen Zangers (bicycle Singers)
Carnival Rides Open (Thurs)

1:00 pm
    STRAATFEEST EVENTS
Straatfeest, Street Scrubbing, Volksparade

3:00 pm
    Band Awards & Drumline Show
Horse-Drawn Trolley Tours
Pedicabs

4:00 pm
    Dutch Dozen Performance
Dutch Street Organ
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park
Wooden Shoe Carving Demos
Tulip Town Bulb Company (WED)

4:30 pm
    Cruise-In Car Show (WED)

6:00 pm
    VOLKSPARADE (Parade)
Carnival Wristband Night (WED)

6:30 pm
    Night Show Musical Production (M-TUES)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

8:00 pm
    Night Show Musical Production (M-TUES)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

If you have any questions that the schedule doesn't answer, you can give us a call and we will try to find the answers for you. The Tulip Festival is a big part of the joy of living in Orange City and has been around for 82 years to celebrate the Dutch heritage of many of the people in Northwest Iowa

Disc Golf Adventures of Jim and Juliana
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

Juliana has been expanding her disc golf gifts into broadcasting and the first two weekends in April, she broadcast the FPO (Female Professional Open) tournaments over the Disc Golf Network. This weekend she is playing in the PDGA Champions Cup presented by Bushnell in Appling, Georgia. Then she heads to Arkansa and then back to California to play on the west coast for awhile.

Jim played in the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Open last week and took first place in his age division. This marks his 100th career, singles win. He will caddy for Juliana for the next two weeks and then will start playing the California circuit himself. They are living quite the adventure.

Book Reviews
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

I'm only going to give one book report this month because I don't like long newsletters and I've taken up a lot of room with Tulip Festival activities.

I usually don't choose to read science fiction books, but this one was amazingly good. The copyright was in 2009 and this is actually Book 2 of a three part trilogy. However, it was a good stand alone book, too. The story is the beginning of a new world after the old one was destroyed by zombies. It takes place in Texas. Rhiannon Frater was born in 1969 in Texas and is best known for her As the World Dies trilogy. The book is soft cover and 364 pages long and sells for $3.00. We just have one copy.