HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Not all annual traditions have been casualties of the COVID 19 outbreak this year.
The 24th annual Kerstmarkt begins on Saturday at the 8th Street Marketplace in downtown Holland. Local artisans and specialty shops will be displaying their wares for purchase over the next four weekends in booths set up off of the 8th Street-Pine Avenue junction in this “Christmas Market” tradition brought over from the Netherlands.
The Holland Friends of Art, a licensed non-profit operating the Kerstmarkt, discussed with the Ottawa County Department of Public Health about whether to have the event this year before deciding to go forward, according to organizer Ernie Marvin.
“It’s not that you can’t be out and about, or go shopping,” he said during a Thursday appearance on “WHTC Morning News,” “it’s just that you have to do it safely. That was our main concern.
“We want to be open because we love this show, but we have to do it in a way so that the customers are safe and the vendors are safe. We’ve had several meetings on just the precautions we need to take to assure that that happens.”
The Holland Kerstmarkt runs the next four Saturdays from 9 AM to 5 PM, as well as from 11 AM to 5 PM next Friday, and from 3-8 PM the following two Fridays.
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