i hope you're enjoying your dinner and the great music from the quartet for part of the allen high school orchestr as you help yourself to the dessert centerpieces on your table will get the program started we are going to go back and watch the video of the making of the day in the grain for the gen some of us including myself missed that so we're going to go back and look at that video last year for tool time one of the great things with you had this opportunity to provide a cocktail for last years to a time about so our team got together and we came up with what we called tulip time t h y m e we use time as a as an earth as a so we were able to prepare our gin with some fresh lemon juice and really provide a cocktail that was so appropriate for the time of year that it was showcased the quality and the flavorings that you'll get from our gen and then what's the best part of that was we got to share that with almost twenty restaurants and bars in our community that carried the two of time cocktails so we had hundreds and hundreds of people enjoying this cocktail at many locations this year and they asked us if we of all the people that i've met in my whole life she's in the top ten most impactful people i've ever met in my life so we did we sat down over a table over the distillery and started talking grains that's my favorite su obviously being a miller and we talked about what did they need what could i produce and what a partnership makes sense and then the end product could be something we could both be proud of you know a dutch product made with grain ground in the window it's kind of across between the molten is that you find in whiskey but then the tentacles that you find in the traditional i was really impressed by the fact they wanted to not just have me grind the grain but they wanted to come here and be a part of thank you shelley before i get into what i was going to talk about our daughter has worked at the windmill for the last five years as one of the tour guides and if you haven't seen the windmill and not just the video the video doesn't do it justice i definitely would take the time to go see the windmill is one of those hidden gems in the backyard that you don't think of going to because we live here but it is an amazing an amazing place to go see a lighthouse group  flow that we have also shown and then in various tool type theories you might have seen the red light house in the tool prayed over the past few years and will continue to do that as well we also happen to have several dozen runners  and members of our team that will go to be part of the tool time ron and also if we are very proud to be part of the sponsorship of this evening so as you can see lighthouse group is not only a sponsor of this evening but we're fully ingrained into the home community and we're very glad to be part of that the two time poster program began in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and its longstanding history has produced beautiful collection are representing the festival in holland community this is the fifth year of the art boom competition in the thirty fourth year of the poster collection this year there were sixty eight artists submitted a total of one hundred twenty works for the competition which is a collaboration of two a time and a howling area arts coun nelson from hope college as our department steep here on the wonderful submissions to the top twenty works of art which all of you have had a great opportunity to see here this evening then representatives of tulip time and the arts council select the i'd like to turn it back over to you also have a dedicated and forward thinking board of directors most of them are here tonight and claim to have worked and i'm sure that they have introduced them selves to you but if you would stand so we can recognise you look time also has an incredibly hardworking staff many people don't realize that putting on the festival is a year round job it's a lot of planning that goes into it we have been blast with three new staff members this year that i'd like to introduce program director and carol rocks event planner uh uh uh year which one is forty nine this is the forty ninth year they will perform it to a time inboard downtown for all those clocks you can bring your own chairs all right i love those new seats and if you've seen some of the bleachers we're excited about this change so we're going to keep working towards this going forward and are really excited about this new new seating arrangement so thank you very much for the work  podium to introduce our twenty final well nice job and when the team our hats off to each one of you for presenting just a wonderful evening for us to be part of it's just been delightful good food by elp in and great atmosphere and so thanks for the entertainment as well we're excited for the coming season it's a joy to be a part of it to look time from being involved as a volunteer and being part on the board and being a city resident and bring in our kids and so i think you would agree with me to a time is a great event that we can celebrate the wonderful city that we live in and we get to start already in february at this great event and so i'm going to introduce our former winners of the competition that took place over the last four years if you would please stand will hold our applause until all four have been recognized who gave us resilience last year please join me and  i saw movement over by the piano i thought that was my pianist for thing in the next part it's not going to happen all right ok a few what we have the twenty artists who are at the top the finalists of the competition for the tulip time festival poster and the winner will be announced at the end but if you've all had opportunity to see those renderings and i'm an announced those now and will be introduced on the screen as well if you would stand when you are introduced and if we could hold our applause please until all of them have been introduced the first is cynthia andrews untitled piece cindy bender tulips the  vintage tulips cassandra garcia beyond but see burma morton garden variety and spring green gathered together art of post growing out of my shoes michael stewart morning dance carolyn stitch joy of spring thank you so much these pieces are truly wonderful and it was an honor to have you all here tonight and celebrate with us and now the winning piece for two thousand and fifteen is an artist who studied commercial art and graphic he has a charming heart and retail shop downtown i found i can say things with color and shapes that i couldn't see any other way is a quote from georgia o'keefe and the inspiration for  well looks a lot different appear this is such an honor thank you very much i really love the city i love painting everything all the beautiful things so this is quite an honor and this does go to my students the one particular who is actually passing away like this week but he i went to paint for him monday and he pulled me close and he has no strength and he says and thursday i just thank you so much carolyn are excited to enter into the two thousand and fifteen with your fabulous work of art as our poster i know you've had a chance to meet someone new this evening network with others and learn a bit more about the festival an twenty wonderful works of art that we have and all of the great shows that we have offered from our local art and culture series and i hope you all get tickets all of those we want to thank our sponsors again tonight the lighthouse crew helping ro way out included in this gift is also a membership form join the band and become a member or give it to a friend we look forward to seeing you again as we celebrate the eighty six tulip time have a great