right well there we go criers in your own hometowns as that sounds like fun all right we had a series of town criers not just from around the country not just around the continent but really from around the world so this is going to be a very very fun and unique evening for you and the the holland tunnel  did alright i should also note that you know this is a festival celebrating many things some of which is dodge and bad bets are known for a whole host of things one of which of course is being tightened like the money still in addition to winning the competition the prize that the pride that goes with the bill also are competing for prizes first place really be a two hundred hour prize a second place a one hundred dollars prize and third place a fifty dollars pri course of the evening i had someone from out of town asked me tonight already one of you who does this one prince this thing  then already he was excited about till the time he as he mentioned he has done probably hundreds of bus tours over the past couple of decades and that he was always a requested highly requested your guy or step on to our so ontario canada mark knoller and his esquire margaret good evening or i could be starving to death restaurant about what options are before you this evening in specifically to talk about a special cocktail that you can him tonight it is going to be available only in holland michigan for to look time  we have a mother's day event which of course is a great brunch day my hunch is there are a lot of spaces like that out the rose for brunch tomorrow brides perhaps perhaps you can get a spot if you're looking for that brunch spot tomorrow food for you to eat please f l free to help yourself to refreshments as they go along i should note that i've got we have five judges and we'll meet them in a little bit but for none of the judges are looking to add points they're looking to judge on the four categories i mentioned earlier the fifth judge the fifth judge sally here on the left his mind waiving it there you go sally is actually a bit more of a nit picking kind of judge she is the kind of jobs that reminds us  of perhaps the schoolmarm back in grade school or grammar school but one who is always looking for something wrong with what we do each of these criers have written out their cries ahead of time and submitted a copy of their cry to the judges sally's job is to make sure that each of the criers recites word for word what their cry is supposed to be and if they miss a road or they mess up on a word she did ox so she  the the jabs with the red pen it's a tough job sally but somebody has to do it there you go it's here and sally i should mention is also on the zealand city council she is the mayor pro tem sort of the vice mayor if you will for th wisconsin called loose road which is east village should named after a place and all right said another one's my high school mascot where the flying dutchman and yet we're fourth generation american so you know about this much and this much dutch last time i was in amsterdam they look at you like are you are you are you dad sure you're american and a hand to go the lady my passport and she said good morning and i said we were ok and she you i know what you're thinking you're thinking well i would like to pick one of these two ups go ahead if you've got money in your pocket there was actually an ordinance in the city of holland if you pick it to look you could find for it how about that a few years ago there was some that some teenagers who thought it would be great fun to drive down a street opened their doors you probably saw some of the lanes that have to the point in them open their doors and gave the tourists a haircut as they went down the street  that didn't end well for them but the next person who tries such a thing it will and worse because i we are fairly ingenious what we have done now was we plant little spikes at various spots throughout the street and so that if someone were to do  that the least of their worries was going to be the find their base in the city sponsored the respects are sponsored by the local body shops in town you need to remember that the dutch are ingenious sorts of folks that while they were fighting there were going to pendants from spain they were also trading with them wrap your head around that for a second right all right our next cry it comes to us from you know folks usually have to pay extra for that kind of humor out what they're doing what are you doing this with a high powered program that looks like this is correct boy so you're going to like the ernst and young of the town crier competition right i think you should run there you go good notice i'm wearing a little microphone when i'm holding one lovely chord thing so i can't go out and harass you at that i mean talk with you the reason is that we are recording this for a local city public access television station now my hunch is that those of you who do not live here in holland probably don't have access to holland michigan cable television going out on a limb but we do put all these things on the web as well so this is evenings town crier competition all the parades a whole host of things to look time to be on city council meetings even because you know you don't want to watch those put onto the web and the easiest way to find a link to these items is to go to the city's website city of holland dot com city of holland dot com go to the t v page and you will be able to relive this competition relive the parades and see a whole bunch more about our community well now we move on we go back to california  from pennsylvania we go to cambridge california and we have bev braver now you're probably wondering wait a minute that's a pretty fairly familiar name didn't we just have another paper from california indeed we did bat we welcome you she has women here who address right there still are the judges are still writing furiously and that piece of the program will be edited out of the final broadcast now i saw a video about how to make the tulip time cocktail right now do you have the consequent what's your website dot com very creative for copper craft story is that video on your website yes it is so you want to know at home how you how it is you can make your own tool time cocktail  might have to have some of the official tulip time hard beverage shipped in your direction and they would be very happy to do so a group great local company just has recently gotten started and is taking not only our area by storm but  doing great work in the world of spirits certain regulations to them all right we are going to move right along going back to canada burlington ontario canada to be specific we welcome david ballack and his escort oh you david after listening to david in a few others i know you have the same question i do where do you get the for the cat write to me is there some for a rule that a town crier must have further cap i'm not sure that was wonderful  interestingly maybe you'll notice how different each of the costumes are and i suspect that there's a wide degree of latitude that one has to design a costume and our next town crier is no different after the competition i would encourage you to go up to them and ask them questions about their outfits ask them questions about perhaps the medallions they wear the pins they wear the symbolism that they have because there's been a lot of thought put into each of these costumes and the escorts for that matter are very pleased to chat with you about what it is that has inspired their costumes when we're back in canada still we're still in canada ok we welcome from petroleum oh really got texas here and we're sisters from chicago there's a joke in there somewhere and i can think of it off in my teleprompter broke and one of them is celebrating a birthday sort  whoa have you around you can cry some and sing some more you know it was me you know the biggest call and response or she said no that is the biggest one of production trumbull coupon day on sunday a continual discussion about combining holland and zealand into one place because really we're very similar we're not that far geographically apart from one another the problem is each of us want to have the first part of the name unlike the other one have ask not always a former colleague of mine a man who serve in the city council for more than three decades how in god's name he can do that is beyond me i brought me dead credit up for many years greg was the mayor pro tem of the holland city council and really is just a remarkable guy and when he says i decided to get involved he sort of underselling it quite a bit i mean he is very very active in the community and there just really really what can what are some numbers you can tell us about this year's festival we've had more sold out shows than we've had in the past we had at least ten people and that parade today i think you can even get that down the sidewalk which was crazy so we think five hundred thousand people over the last eight days which is fabulous and not you know it's just a great festival it is it has when what what's what's think what i'm more time to really mayors in michigan can perform writings all right good ok third place winner i can flip this over and well here we go now all right forget that at some point when somebody doesn't start coming up here to sort of get the vision from the sound of music or the von trapp family singers that are going to i don't show but here comes a lizabeth wonderful really between the equator and the north pole and note the colors of his costume coincidence i think not