HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – While some traditions, old and new, continue in the Holland area, one annual staple is taking a T-O.
There will be no Holland in Bloom entry for 2018 in either the America in Bloom national beautification awareness competition, where the Tulip City vied for honors over a six-year period, or the Communities in Bloom international competition, which Holland was a part of in 2017. Linda Hart of the Holland Area Visitors Bureau, who is a member of the HIB organizing committee, explained in a Thursday appearance on “WHTC Morning News” that, “we decided consciously to use some of our funding that we do in our fundraising to work on some projects that the judges, from both the international and national evaluations, have given us. These are some of the long-term projects that we might want to consider this year.”
Holland in Bloom does plan on getting back into either the national or international competition in 2019, and will decide later this month when to stage its annual post-Tulip Time Tulip Dig as one of those fundraising efforts.
