{"id":26417,"date":"2015-10-15T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=26417"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:50:10","slug":"friendship-tulip-garden-planted-in-minitonas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2015\/10\/15\/friendship-tulip-garden-planted-in-minitonas\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Tulip Garden Planted in Minitonas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ValleyBiz Story | <\/p>\n

Veterans, dignitaries school children and members of the public attended a Planting Ceremony for a 70th anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden in Minitonas on Wednesday, October 14, 2015.<\/p>\n

Click any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

The event was hosted by the Tent Town Garden Club, selected as one of 140 successful applicants across Canada (one of 4 in Manitoba) to receive a 70th Anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden. <\/p>\n

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The Tulip Gardens are being planted in celebration of the first gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs sent to Canadians in 1945 as a symbol of appreciation for the role the Canadian soldiers played in the liberation of the Netherlands and the hospitality Canada provided the the Dutch Royal family in Ottawa during W.W.II. <\/p>\n

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700 red and white tulips were planted in the shape of a Canadian flag at the Cenotaph grounds in Minitonas. A bloom Ceremony will be held in the spring.<\/p>\n

Pictured above:
\nKeith Fulford, Minitonas Veteran who served in Holland
\n – planted one bulb for Canada and one for all Veterans<\/p>\n

Walter Mychalchuk, Sergeant at Arms
\n – planted a bulb for all Legion members<\/p>\n

Clinton Eisner, Reeve of the Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman
\n – planted one bulb for Manitoba and one for the Municipality<\/p>\n

Jr. Garden Club members planted bulbs representing all future gardeners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ValleyBiz Story | Veterans, dignitaries school children and members of the public attended a Planting Ceremony for a 70th anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden in Minitonas on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Click any picture for a larger version. The event was hosted by the Tent Town Garden Club, selected as one of 140 successful applicants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-26417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}