Tulip festival
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

Our big news this time of year is always the Tulip Festival. If you would like us to send you a brochure, e-mail us (jubonjuweelen@gmail.com) and we’ll have it in the next snail mail. In the meantime, we’ll summarize the Festivals activities.

Activities start on Wednesday, May 17

   5pm Food vendors open
   6pm Ride Night – carnival midway
      (in front of our store)
   6pm Cruise-In Car Show
   8pm Night Show: “Shrek the Musical”

Thursday, May 18 & Friday, May 19

   10–11am Tulip Court Meet & Greet
   10am–12 & 4–6pm De Klompen Maker
   10:30am, 11:30, & 4pm Dutch Dozen
   12pm-1pm Fietsen Zangers
   1pm Straat Feest
   1pm Street Scrubbing
   2:15pm & 6pm Volksparade
   3:30pm Band Awards & Drum Line Show
   4:45pm Puppet Show
   7:30pm OnStage Orange City
   8pm "Shrek the Musical"

Saturday, May 20

   7am–11am Fly-In Breakfast
   8am Kiwanis Road Race
   9am–4:30pm ArtBurst & Authors’ Corner
   9am–5pm Craft Show
   10am–11am Tulip Court Meet & Greet
   10am-12 & 4–6pm De Klompen Maker
   10:30am, 11:30am & 4pm Dutch Dozen
   12pm–1pm Fietsen Zangers
   1pm Straat Feest
   1pm Street Scrubbing
   2:15pm & 6pm Volksparade
   3:30pm Band Awards & Drum Line Show
   4:45pm Puppet Show
   7:30pm OnStageOrange City
   8pm "Shrek the Musical"

Sunday, May 21

   11am Community Worship Service

If you have any questions about location, etc., give us a call at 712-737-8920 and we will try to help you.

Website Overhaul
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

Our website was over six year’s old and we hadn’t kept it up to date as well as we should have. Therefore, we are in the process of constructing a whole new one with more accurate data. However, with the Tulip Festival coming up, it probably won’t be ready to go until close to the end of May. Just be patient. We haven’t forgotten about it. In the meantime, you can “like” us on Facebook and get a flavor of what we are all about.

Straat Winkel
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

For those of you who don’t know what Staart Winkel means, it means street shop and it will be located in the street market just north of the Court House in Orange City during the Tulip Festival. This is a building that was built for the Tulip Festival and will be moved onto the street that will be closed off for the Dutch Street market for three days during the Tulip Festival. We were very happy to enter into an agreement with the Steering Committee to take over running the shop. To help us with this project, Juliana, my daughter, will be flying in from San Diego to help us. She is a software computer engineer and will help us especially with any technology issues we may have. She is also the disc golfer that I am always talking about to those of you who buy discs in our store. So, please come visit us this May 18, 19 or 20 either at our store, which is located just north of the children’s rides, or at the Straat Winkel, just north of the Court House.

New Dutch Imports
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

This week we are anticipating a very large order from our Dutch Import source, just in time for the Tulip Festival. Of course we always carry a good supply of wooden shoes, i.e. plain ones, red mill ones and farmers design, or traditional. We have a few pair of wedding shoes, also. Remember, if you are taking part in the festival we give a discount on your shoes. We also carry wooden shoe clogs and wooden shoe slippers. We are getting a large order of new Delft items as well as a new supply of Dutch food. We should be well supplied for all the visitors we are expecting in Orange City.

RAGBRAI
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

The first night of RAGBRAI will start in Orange City this year. We’ll have more information on that in the next newsletter. For those of you not familiar with this, RAGBRAI stands for Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. This is an activity that the Des Moines Register started 45 years ago and brings thousands of people to Iowa.

Perusing our Guest Book
By Owner: Bonnie Meier

This month we had people from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and of course, Iowa. We also had a visitor from Utrecht, Netherlands.