nieuwsbrief may 2012 2
de Kamer Nieuwsbrief ___________________________________
April 2012 ___________________________________
Pella Chamber of Commerce 818 Washington Street Pella, IA 50219 Office Hours: M-F 8:00 am - 5 pm Phone: 641-628-2626 Fax: 641-628-9697 Toll Free: 888-746-3882 www.pella.org Staff: Karen Eischen Chamber/ PADCO Executive Director
A publication of the Pella Chamber of Commerce, Pella Area Development Corporation, Pella Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Positively Pella
June Community Connections Breakfast The Pella Chamber will host the second quarterly membership meeting, over breakfast, on June 27th from 7:00-8:00 am at the Bos Landen Conference Center. The program will feature updates on three major projects taking place in the upcoming year in the Pella area: the hydroelectric generation facility at Lake Red Rock, Pella Sports Complex and the Wesley Life senior living facility. Representatives will be on hand to go over renderings and details of each project. The membership meeting is also a great opportunity to be introduced to new members and to network with other Chamber members! All Chamber members and employees are invited. To reserve your seat, please RSVP by email to [email protected] or call 628-2626 by June 18th. Cost for breakfast is $10 for members/$20 for non members.
Chamber Membership Directories Available The Chamber recently mailed out the 2012/13 Membership Directory to our members. If you would like additional copies for your office please let us know and we will be happy to provide extra copies. To order extra copies please call Carla at 628-2626 or [email protected].
Jill Vandevoort CVB Director Lyndsey Van Soelen Positively Pella Director Carla Thomassen Office Manager ___________________________________
Upcoming Chamber Events... Mark your calendars! May 17– Young Professionals Monthly Mingle May 23– Retail Meeting May 29– Techy Tuesday June 7– Thursdays in Pella June 14– Thursdays in Pella June 28– Thursdays in Pella July 5– Thursdays in Pella July 12– Thursdays in Pella July19– Thursdays in Pella July 26– Thursdays in Pella Aug 22– Retail Meeting Sept 14– Chamber Golf Outing Nov 14– Retail Meeting Nov 22– Tour of Stores Dec 13– Chamber Membership Lunch: Community Connections For a complete list of events, please visit www.pella.org ___________________________________
Its almost that time again… Thursdays in Pella! Get ready for some fun times with friends, family, and festivities as Thursdays in Pella resumes for the June and July months. Thursdays in Pella is a great way for the community to come together and have fun in the summertime. Featuring exhibits by local businesses, events, crafts for kids, the City Band, outdoor movies and live entertainment, you won’t want to miss it! This year’s themes are: • June 7: Celebrating Families • June 14: Paws n’ Claws • June 21: Service Night • June 28: Live Well • July 5: Dutch Fair • July 12: Up, Up & Away! • July 19: Race Night • July 26: Ag in the City
Retail meeting Just a reminder to mark your calendars for our next Chamber Member Retail Business Owner/Manager meeting on Wednesday, May 23 from 7:30 – 8:30 am at the Pella Safety Complex, located on the East side of the Police Station. Pella Chief of Police Robert Bokinsky will speak on how to minimize shoplifting and theft in your business. Please RSVP to Carla at 628-2626 or [email protected].
Since “time flies”, you might want to “tie down” these dates...
Lake Red Rock Balloon Fest 2012! July 13, 14, & 15 2012 For more information on this free family event, check out page 3 or go to: www.lakeredrockballoonfest.com
Karen Eischen Chamber Executive Director
A Few April Highlights Thank you for recycling your electronics during Pella’s E-Cycling events!
The Chamber held a Legislative Coffee for members and the public once per month during the 2012 Legislative Session (Feb, March, & April). Thank you to Senator Paul McKinley and Representative Jim Van Engelenhoven for their time during the coffees and their service to our area! At the April Quarterly Membership Meeting members learned about Pella Christian Grade School’s Spanish Immersion Program beginning this fall. We also recognized the following businesses at the April 12 Quarterly Community Connection Luncheon:
Van Zant Collision 25th Anniversary Bruce Van Sant 80 Truman Rd Pella, IA 641-628-3206
Des Moines Business Systems Paul Schut 5485 NE 17th St Ste C Des Moines, IA 515-266-4410
Marion County Farm Bureau Mary Van Zante 1017 N Lincoln Knoxville, IA 641-842-6214
Dutch Greetings: April 18 Ribbon Cutting at AmericInn AmericInn Hotel & Suites 910 W 16th St Pella, IA 641-621-1421
Welcome New Chamber Members! Sha-Ran Window Services PO Box 537 Oskaloosa, IA 52577 Phone 641-660-8233 Randy Horn DMB Supply 1001 West 10th Pella, IA 50219 Phone 641-628-1970 www.dmbolt.com
Mike Nardini City Administrator
Pella's Outdoor Warning System From the unseasonably warm March to the wet and windy April, this spring has been a reminder of the unpredictability of Iowa weather. After seeing the aftermath from some of the storms that recently hit our state and the Midwest, I feel it is important to inform our citizens about Pella’s outdoor warning system. Being prepared when severe weather strikes can help save lives as well as property. The City of Pella has an outdoor warning system that consists of eight warning sirens placed strategically around the City. This month I would like to encourage citizens to familiarize themselves with the various tones regarding the City's outdoor warning system and to heed any warnings given. The first tone activated is a continuous, steady siren, which during an actual warning indicates that Marion County, including the Pella area, has been placed under a tornado warning according to the National Weather Service. In the event of an actual warning, the public address is only activated if a tornado has been sighted and citizens are then instructed of the sighting and told to take immediate shelter. The second tone is a pulsating air horn tone (all clear) which is sounded after notification from the National Weather Service that the severe weather is no longer a threat to our community. In the past, there has been some confusion deciphering the fire siren and tornado siren. The siren activated in conjunction with a fire is a wail siren verses the several minute duration of the tornado alert siren. If you have questions about the City's warning system, please contact the Pella Police Department, 614 Main Street, 641-628-4921.
Thank You for Your Membership Renewal Bos Landen Golf Club Lely USA Mediacom Pella Hometown Variety
Jill Vandevoort
Lyndsey Van Soelen
Pella Convention & Visitors Bureau
Preview of Red Rock Balloon Fest 2012 Get ready for the second annual Red Rock Balloon Fest! You will want to be sure your summer vacation is planned opposite of this great new event! We’ve worked with a number of organizations within the Knoxville, Pella and Red Rock Area to increase the weekend’s activities for 2012. Beyond the beauty of the balloons planned to launch four times throughout the weekend, this year the event will include: • Thursday July 12 “Up, Up and Away”, will be the Thursdays in Pella Theme leading into the festivities for the weekend. • Friday Night, July 13th a live band on the North Overlook Beach hosted by the Young Professionals with food vendors and sand volleyball. • Saturday, July 14th activities include both a 5K Run/ Walk and 10K runs hosted by the Pella and Knoxville High School Cross-Country teams, a Pancake Breakfast on the North Overlook Beach, “Show N Go” ride with the Pella Cycling Club, “Let’s go Paddling” kayak-training and family geo-caching with the Army Corps of Engineers, “Buddy the Beaver”, Sand-Castle Sculpting with the Red Rock Art Alliance, an outdoor movie; “Free Willy” at the South Overlook Visitors Center completing the night with the grand “Night Glow” of brilliant tethered balloons at South Overlook. Something for everyone, all hosted at Lake Red Rock.
Upcoming Groups • May 7th-8th: Golden Frontier (50 ppl) • May 8th-9th: Unique Travel (50 ppl) • May 10th: Mid Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America • May 12th: IA Senior Women’s Bowling Tourney(250 ppl) • May 19th-20th: IA Senior Women’s Bowling Tourney (250 ppl) • May 18th-20th: Winnie Hawks Tour (80 ppl) • May 21st: ASHRAE (100 ppl) • May 25th-26th: IA Golf Assn. 4-Ball Tournament • May 26th-28th: Bible Conference (400 ppl) • May 30th-June 3rd: New Sharon GEMS summer camp • June 12th: Model A Regional Club (200 ppl) • June 15th-17th: HOBY (200 ppl) • June 18th-20th: Vermeer Customer Days (400 ppl) • June 21st-22nd: IA Federated Garden Club (125 ppl) • June 23rd: Wise Reunion • June 30th: Christian Tours (50 ppl) • June 30th-July 5th: Petersma Reunion
Positively Pella
Why is Positively Pella so positive for Pella? Yes, Positively Pella is my job and my livelihood, but I can honestly say I’m passionate about the Positively Pella program. I wanted to take a moment to explain what Positively Pella is and some of the ways in which it benefits this community. The goal of Positively Pella is to provide assistance to potential and actual new residents to Pella, as well as promote Pella as a great place to live. This is achieved by giving tours to prospective residents, becoming an easy source of information to help new residents get established and to thrive, and creating a hospitable atmosphere by organizing new resident events and supporting programs like Young Professionals. The benefit to the community is multifaceted and differs from group to group. For businesses who hire these employees, it tends to mean less turnover and therefore less money spent on retraining a new employee. For small business owners, it means more dollars spent locally. For the general public, Positively Pella means happy neighbors who are committed to Pella. People who feel welcome typically become more involved in schools, churches, and other organizations, and take pride in the community. We all benefit when people are committed to the good of the town. To have the best people coming into the community and to bring out the best in them, you have to show them why Pella is great and make it feel like home. That is exactly what Positively Pella aims to do.
Thank you to Positively Pella’s sponsor corporations for their continued support!
Silver Sponsors: - Compass Mortgage - Highpoint at Pella - Leighton State Bank - Marion County Bank -MidWest One Bank - Tassel Ridge Winery - The Work of Our Hands - West End Auto - Pella Convention & Visitors Bureau -
www.ypofpella.org
Scott Johnson Chamber President
Tourism: The Smart Investment As I write my contribution this month for “Nieuwsbrief”, details are being finalized for Tulip Time 2012. From what I hear from most businesses, it has been a great start to the 2012 visitor season. By the time this article reaches you, “Tulip Time” will have passed and the only thing left will be taking notes for next year and possibly paying some bills. Hopefully, we as a community have provided an experience that will make the visitors want to return to see us again. We want them to consider coming back in the future when “mother nature” allows for a more timely arrival of our tulips. The Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), under the umbrella of the Pella Chamber of Commerce, goes to great lengths to reach out to invite people from outside our immediate area to come to our community each year. The greatest part of our budget in the CVB goes to advertising, promoting, and essentially inviting people to Pella. This helps ensure that we keep the people coming that help keep the hotel rooms full, the restaurants busy, and the retail store registers ringing. One major area of concern for the Pella CVB is that due to budget concerns, the State of Iowa has chosen for the third consecutive year to reduce appropriations for tourism. It seems to me that this might not be the best way to go about reducing our state’s budgets woes. Dollars spent on promotion of tourism might well be some of the most beneficial dollars our state government spends each year. The fact is, tourism generates tax revenue and
keeps people working. Dollars spent by visitors to Iowa pay several different taxes including sales tax and gasoline tax. The dollars spent increase revenues and profits for businesses, resulting in more profit and a higher net income tax liability for those businesses. The tourism industry in Iowa employs thousands of people and those people are also paying their share of the state’s tax revenues. The state’s budget for tourism for 2012 is just over 4 million dollars. This seems like a small price to pay for an industry that generates over $6 billion (that is billion with a “b”) dollars in revenue. According to the Travel Federation of Iowa, the state of Iowa’s financial contribution to promote tourism ranks 47th of all 50 states. I suggest increasing the tourism budget to the $5 million dollars suggested by the Travel Federation of Iowa might be dollars well spent. Reach out to our legislators and encourage them to support tourism. Let’s not sit idly by while the state chooses again to reduce tourism as part of the budget. In Pella we probably know better than most the impact tourism makes on our community. Our visitors and the dollars they spend here are a significant part in what makes Pella (what I consider) the best community in the state of Iowa. I hope you have had a great Tulip Time and that the jump start we have gotten this year in the retail season continues. Let’s all do our part all year long to provide all our visitors and customers an experience to remember and keep them coming back. Let’s make the 2012 year a great year for all.
Tulip Time 2012 Although most of the tulips had already bloomed, there was no lack of fun at Tulip Time 2012! From the Dutch Dancing to the parades, and the poffertjes to the street scrubbers, everyone had a great time celebrating Pella’s Dutch heritage.
A HUGE
Thank you
to
TOWN Crier For providing t-shirts for this event!
Tulip Time was especially exciting for Pella’s new residents, some of which rode the Mussel float with Positively Pella for Friday’s afternoon parade.
April 2012 ___________________________________
Pella Chamber of Commerce 818 Washington Street Pella, IA 50219 Office Hours: M-F 8:00 am - 5 pm Phone: 641-628-2626 Fax: 641-628-9697 Toll Free: 888-746-3882 www.pella.org Staff: Karen Eischen Chamber/ PADCO Executive Director
A publication of the Pella Chamber of Commerce, Pella Area Development Corporation, Pella Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Positively Pella
June Community Connections Breakfast The Pella Chamber will host the second quarterly membership meeting, over breakfast, on June 27th from 7:00-8:00 am at the Bos Landen Conference Center. The program will feature updates on three major projects taking place in the upcoming year in the Pella area: the hydroelectric generation facility at Lake Red Rock, Pella Sports Complex and the Wesley Life senior living facility. Representatives will be on hand to go over renderings and details of each project. The membership meeting is also a great opportunity to be introduced to new members and to network with other Chamber members! All Chamber members and employees are invited. To reserve your seat, please RSVP by email to [email protected] or call 628-2626 by June 18th. Cost for breakfast is $10 for members/$20 for non members.
Chamber Membership Directories Available The Chamber recently mailed out the 2012/13 Membership Directory to our members. If you would like additional copies for your office please let us know and we will be happy to provide extra copies. To order extra copies please call Carla at 628-2626 or [email protected].
Jill Vandevoort CVB Director Lyndsey Van Soelen Positively Pella Director Carla Thomassen Office Manager ___________________________________
Upcoming Chamber Events... Mark your calendars! May 17– Young Professionals Monthly Mingle May 23– Retail Meeting May 29– Techy Tuesday June 7– Thursdays in Pella June 14– Thursdays in Pella June 28– Thursdays in Pella July 5– Thursdays in Pella July 12– Thursdays in Pella July19– Thursdays in Pella July 26– Thursdays in Pella Aug 22– Retail Meeting Sept 14– Chamber Golf Outing Nov 14– Retail Meeting Nov 22– Tour of Stores Dec 13– Chamber Membership Lunch: Community Connections For a complete list of events, please visit www.pella.org ___________________________________
Its almost that time again… Thursdays in Pella! Get ready for some fun times with friends, family, and festivities as Thursdays in Pella resumes for the June and July months. Thursdays in Pella is a great way for the community to come together and have fun in the summertime. Featuring exhibits by local businesses, events, crafts for kids, the City Band, outdoor movies and live entertainment, you won’t want to miss it! This year’s themes are: • June 7: Celebrating Families • June 14: Paws n’ Claws • June 21: Service Night • June 28: Live Well • July 5: Dutch Fair • July 12: Up, Up & Away! • July 19: Race Night • July 26: Ag in the City
Retail meeting Just a reminder to mark your calendars for our next Chamber Member Retail Business Owner/Manager meeting on Wednesday, May 23 from 7:30 – 8:30 am at the Pella Safety Complex, located on the East side of the Police Station. Pella Chief of Police Robert Bokinsky will speak on how to minimize shoplifting and theft in your business. Please RSVP to Carla at 628-2626 or [email protected].
Since “time flies”, you might want to “tie down” these dates...
Lake Red Rock Balloon Fest 2012! July 13, 14, & 15 2012 For more information on this free family event, check out page 3 or go to: www.lakeredrockballoonfest.com
Karen Eischen Chamber Executive Director
A Few April Highlights Thank you for recycling your electronics during Pella’s E-Cycling events!
The Chamber held a Legislative Coffee for members and the public once per month during the 2012 Legislative Session (Feb, March, & April). Thank you to Senator Paul McKinley and Representative Jim Van Engelenhoven for their time during the coffees and their service to our area! At the April Quarterly Membership Meeting members learned about Pella Christian Grade School’s Spanish Immersion Program beginning this fall. We also recognized the following businesses at the April 12 Quarterly Community Connection Luncheon:
Van Zant Collision 25th Anniversary Bruce Van Sant 80 Truman Rd Pella, IA 641-628-3206
Des Moines Business Systems Paul Schut 5485 NE 17th St Ste C Des Moines, IA 515-266-4410
Marion County Farm Bureau Mary Van Zante 1017 N Lincoln Knoxville, IA 641-842-6214
Dutch Greetings: April 18 Ribbon Cutting at AmericInn AmericInn Hotel & Suites 910 W 16th St Pella, IA 641-621-1421
Welcome New Chamber Members! Sha-Ran Window Services PO Box 537 Oskaloosa, IA 52577 Phone 641-660-8233 Randy Horn DMB Supply 1001 West 10th Pella, IA 50219 Phone 641-628-1970 www.dmbolt.com
Mike Nardini City Administrator
Pella's Outdoor Warning System From the unseasonably warm March to the wet and windy April, this spring has been a reminder of the unpredictability of Iowa weather. After seeing the aftermath from some of the storms that recently hit our state and the Midwest, I feel it is important to inform our citizens about Pella’s outdoor warning system. Being prepared when severe weather strikes can help save lives as well as property. The City of Pella has an outdoor warning system that consists of eight warning sirens placed strategically around the City. This month I would like to encourage citizens to familiarize themselves with the various tones regarding the City's outdoor warning system and to heed any warnings given. The first tone activated is a continuous, steady siren, which during an actual warning indicates that Marion County, including the Pella area, has been placed under a tornado warning according to the National Weather Service. In the event of an actual warning, the public address is only activated if a tornado has been sighted and citizens are then instructed of the sighting and told to take immediate shelter. The second tone is a pulsating air horn tone (all clear) which is sounded after notification from the National Weather Service that the severe weather is no longer a threat to our community. In the past, there has been some confusion deciphering the fire siren and tornado siren. The siren activated in conjunction with a fire is a wail siren verses the several minute duration of the tornado alert siren. If you have questions about the City's warning system, please contact the Pella Police Department, 614 Main Street, 641-628-4921.
Thank You for Your Membership Renewal Bos Landen Golf Club Lely USA Mediacom Pella Hometown Variety
Jill Vandevoort
Lyndsey Van Soelen
Pella Convention & Visitors Bureau
Preview of Red Rock Balloon Fest 2012 Get ready for the second annual Red Rock Balloon Fest! You will want to be sure your summer vacation is planned opposite of this great new event! We’ve worked with a number of organizations within the Knoxville, Pella and Red Rock Area to increase the weekend’s activities for 2012. Beyond the beauty of the balloons planned to launch four times throughout the weekend, this year the event will include: • Thursday July 12 “Up, Up and Away”, will be the Thursdays in Pella Theme leading into the festivities for the weekend. • Friday Night, July 13th a live band on the North Overlook Beach hosted by the Young Professionals with food vendors and sand volleyball. • Saturday, July 14th activities include both a 5K Run/ Walk and 10K runs hosted by the Pella and Knoxville High School Cross-Country teams, a Pancake Breakfast on the North Overlook Beach, “Show N Go” ride with the Pella Cycling Club, “Let’s go Paddling” kayak-training and family geo-caching with the Army Corps of Engineers, “Buddy the Beaver”, Sand-Castle Sculpting with the Red Rock Art Alliance, an outdoor movie; “Free Willy” at the South Overlook Visitors Center completing the night with the grand “Night Glow” of brilliant tethered balloons at South Overlook. Something for everyone, all hosted at Lake Red Rock.
Upcoming Groups • May 7th-8th: Golden Frontier (50 ppl) • May 8th-9th: Unique Travel (50 ppl) • May 10th: Mid Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America • May 12th: IA Senior Women’s Bowling Tourney(250 ppl) • May 19th-20th: IA Senior Women’s Bowling Tourney (250 ppl) • May 18th-20th: Winnie Hawks Tour (80 ppl) • May 21st: ASHRAE (100 ppl) • May 25th-26th: IA Golf Assn. 4-Ball Tournament • May 26th-28th: Bible Conference (400 ppl) • May 30th-June 3rd: New Sharon GEMS summer camp • June 12th: Model A Regional Club (200 ppl) • June 15th-17th: HOBY (200 ppl) • June 18th-20th: Vermeer Customer Days (400 ppl) • June 21st-22nd: IA Federated Garden Club (125 ppl) • June 23rd: Wise Reunion • June 30th: Christian Tours (50 ppl) • June 30th-July 5th: Petersma Reunion
Positively Pella
Why is Positively Pella so positive for Pella? Yes, Positively Pella is my job and my livelihood, but I can honestly say I’m passionate about the Positively Pella program. I wanted to take a moment to explain what Positively Pella is and some of the ways in which it benefits this community. The goal of Positively Pella is to provide assistance to potential and actual new residents to Pella, as well as promote Pella as a great place to live. This is achieved by giving tours to prospective residents, becoming an easy source of information to help new residents get established and to thrive, and creating a hospitable atmosphere by organizing new resident events and supporting programs like Young Professionals. The benefit to the community is multifaceted and differs from group to group. For businesses who hire these employees, it tends to mean less turnover and therefore less money spent on retraining a new employee. For small business owners, it means more dollars spent locally. For the general public, Positively Pella means happy neighbors who are committed to Pella. People who feel welcome typically become more involved in schools, churches, and other organizations, and take pride in the community. We all benefit when people are committed to the good of the town. To have the best people coming into the community and to bring out the best in them, you have to show them why Pella is great and make it feel like home. That is exactly what Positively Pella aims to do.
Thank you to Positively Pella’s sponsor corporations for their continued support!
Silver Sponsors: - Compass Mortgage - Highpoint at Pella - Leighton State Bank - Marion County Bank -MidWest One Bank - Tassel Ridge Winery - The Work of Our Hands - West End Auto - Pella Convention & Visitors Bureau -
www.ypofpella.org
Scott Johnson Chamber President
Tourism: The Smart Investment As I write my contribution this month for “Nieuwsbrief”, details are being finalized for Tulip Time 2012. From what I hear from most businesses, it has been a great start to the 2012 visitor season. By the time this article reaches you, “Tulip Time” will have passed and the only thing left will be taking notes for next year and possibly paying some bills. Hopefully, we as a community have provided an experience that will make the visitors want to return to see us again. We want them to consider coming back in the future when “mother nature” allows for a more timely arrival of our tulips. The Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), under the umbrella of the Pella Chamber of Commerce, goes to great lengths to reach out to invite people from outside our immediate area to come to our community each year. The greatest part of our budget in the CVB goes to advertising, promoting, and essentially inviting people to Pella. This helps ensure that we keep the people coming that help keep the hotel rooms full, the restaurants busy, and the retail store registers ringing. One major area of concern for the Pella CVB is that due to budget concerns, the State of Iowa has chosen for the third consecutive year to reduce appropriations for tourism. It seems to me that this might not be the best way to go about reducing our state’s budgets woes. Dollars spent on promotion of tourism might well be some of the most beneficial dollars our state government spends each year. The fact is, tourism generates tax revenue and
keeps people working. Dollars spent by visitors to Iowa pay several different taxes including sales tax and gasoline tax. The dollars spent increase revenues and profits for businesses, resulting in more profit and a higher net income tax liability for those businesses. The tourism industry in Iowa employs thousands of people and those people are also paying their share of the state’s tax revenues. The state’s budget for tourism for 2012 is just over 4 million dollars. This seems like a small price to pay for an industry that generates over $6 billion (that is billion with a “b”) dollars in revenue. According to the Travel Federation of Iowa, the state of Iowa’s financial contribution to promote tourism ranks 47th of all 50 states. I suggest increasing the tourism budget to the $5 million dollars suggested by the Travel Federation of Iowa might be dollars well spent. Reach out to our legislators and encourage them to support tourism. Let’s not sit idly by while the state chooses again to reduce tourism as part of the budget. In Pella we probably know better than most the impact tourism makes on our community. Our visitors and the dollars they spend here are a significant part in what makes Pella (what I consider) the best community in the state of Iowa. I hope you have had a great Tulip Time and that the jump start we have gotten this year in the retail season continues. Let’s all do our part all year long to provide all our visitors and customers an experience to remember and keep them coming back. Let’s make the 2012 year a great year for all.
Tulip Time 2012 Although most of the tulips had already bloomed, there was no lack of fun at Tulip Time 2012! From the Dutch Dancing to the parades, and the poffertjes to the street scrubbers, everyone had a great time celebrating Pella’s Dutch heritage.
A HUGE
Thank you
to
TOWN Crier For providing t-shirts for this event!
Tulip Time was especially exciting for Pella’s new residents, some of which rode the Mussel float with Positively Pella for Friday’s afternoon parade.
