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The Grand Haven Chamber of Commerce has announced the return of the annual Sand Sculpture Contest. The event will be held at the Grand Haven City Beach on Saturday, August 12 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
In 1999, Marianne van den Broek picked up a tool and started making figures in a block of sand. Little did she know that the course of her professional life was about to dramatically shift. “I was working on part of a project near Amsterdam in my native Holland where I was initially hired to do grunt work, shoveling and compacting sand into blocks,” van den Broek said. “When they let me stay and play along with the professional sculptors, I became hooked pretty quickly.”