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Pella sees return of Tulip Festival after COVID break
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The Pella Tulip Festival opens its three-day run today year after COVID forced the cancellation of the event last year. The annual festival, which started in 1935, had only been canceled once before, back in 1946.
Spokesperson Cyndi Atkins says the events return with some modifications “We are doing quite a bit to try and be more conscious of being safe and increasing the social distancing. We have revised some of our plans for food stands so they are much more spread out. There is at least six feet or more distance between different stands,” she says.
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Wednesday, May 5, 2021:
ADJOURNMENT DELAY: A GOP stalemate over tax policy has the potential to drag out the 2021 session.
Gov. Kim Reynolds pitched a compromise package Wednesday she hoped would break a stalemate, but House Speaker Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford, said thereâs no agreement yet.
Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny, says his members want to resolve the tax-policy impasse before they move ahead with the fiscal 2022 state budget.
âI donât see us getting done obviously this week. I donât think weâll be done next week, so I think weâre looking at several weeks minimum regardless,â said Whitver.
Pella Tulip Festival 2021 Makes Changes to Reflect New Normal
We all hoped life would be back to normal and social distancing would be well over by May, but KCRG reports Pella Tulip Festival organizers are being a little more cautious.
The May 6-8 event will still feature the usual array of tulips for attendees enjoyment but it will also feature uncertainty regarding what s already been planned. As of now, some of the annual event s festivities have been called off.
The classic sampling of Dutch food and traditional costumes are still on, and organizers are working to plan pop-up musical performances. But the afternoon and evening parades that thousands enjoy as part of the festival are canceled for this year.