good afternoon nathan box back down here at the tulip time festival on a beautiful thursday afternoon the clouds have stayed away the sun shines out here and we're out here to talk about the beer time the great event that's taking place downtown holland michigan tonight tomorrow night and saturday night a great opportunity to come downtown come down watch them touch dancing have a beer at the beer time and see some great entertainment tonight tonight we've got distract he's performing starting at eight thirty going to about eleven o'clock tomorrow night they have the turn ups that are going to be playing and then we also have the crane wives playing on saturday night we might be lucky and also see a special performance from the pitofsky steel drum band and maybe even the detroit pistons drum line have leslie brown from metal flow metal flows one of the sponsors of the tulip time festival this year and metal flows going to be sponsoring the beer time tell us a little bit about metal flow and why metal flows sponsoring this year i'm great well we have been sponsoring tulip time and the specifically as long as it's been in existence and tulip time probably for the past twenty five years or so and we just realize that when we do well at our company that we want to give back to the community and this is one of the ways that we do that this is a great community it's great for a company like metal floated to be involved in the festival you said it's been it's a been a twenty five year partnership any particular reason why the beer time might have been one of the things that the metaphor might want to be involved in well i really didn't have a beer tent beer event at all and my husband was ready to do that as soon as they decided that that was an event for him at all after for it to have time and he was ready to raise his hand and sponsor that well that's that's great we've had we've had a lot of great response from folks especially i found people from out of town who say  why don't you have a beer tent to have a beer tent every festival that we go that we go to as a beer tent that's the first place that they like to visit so a couple years ago we brought the senate it's wonderful that met a fellow who gave us the opportunity to be able to do that can you tell us where the where the time is located it's by the splash pad on downtown on eighth street and that is kind of on the other end of eighth street from where we are right now and great opportunity to be able to go down there should be easy for folks to be able to get in get parked you can park at the  in the parking structure if you'd like to and you can make any evening of it come down have dinner see a show and go to the beer time for a beer are going to be down there this evening i probably will be down there tomorrow evening and i should tell you also that we came from the east side of the state my family did  and we've been here thirty five years and my husband and i came first and then our entire family followed here and we really wanted to be part of holland and part of the festival and part of doing good in the community well that's great was that is exactly the kind of story that we hear all of the time with folks that the people first coming to holland michigan move over here and realize what a great place this is to live and it's companies like metal flow sponsoring the festival and being good community partners that make it such a great place thank you so much for being involved absolutely thank you thank you  and have a great local beer will be back again soon