{"id":373882,"date":"2026-10-15T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373882\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:48:55","slug":"nine-candidates-to-participate-in-2027-tulip-queens-announcement-party-knia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373882\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Candidates to Participate in 2027 Tulip Queen&#8217;s Announcement Party | KNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nine Candidates to Participate in 2027 Tulip Queen&#8217;s Announcement Party | KNIA &#8211; KRLS<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2410\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792072135_678_screenshot_20261013-101936.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"screenshot_20261013-101936\" wpb-att-id=\"712332\" wpb-att-extension=\"png\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pella Historical Museums &amp; Tulip Time has announced that nine high school students have accepted nominations for the 2027 Tulip Court. <\/p>\n<p>All nine candidates will advance directly to the Tulip Queen\u2019s Announcement Party, scheduled for Saturday, November 14, at 7:00pm in the Pella High<br \/>School Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the Tulip Court selection process begins with a community voting period to narrow the field of nominees to 12 candidates. With nine candidates accepting nominations this year, the community voting stage will be omitted, allowing all nine young women to participate in the Announcement Party.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the public portion of the event, candidates will participate in individual interviews with a panel of more than 30 judges. During the evening\u2019s program, each candidate will deliver a three-minute<br \/>presentation highlighting her personality, interests, and talents, followed by questions about herself and her involvement with Tulip Time.<\/p>\n<p>The event will conclude with the announcement of the 2027 Tulip Queen and Court, who will serve as ambassadors for Pella and its Dutch heritage in the months leading up to Tulip Time.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Tulip Queen\u2019s Announcement Party will go on sale November 1.<\/p>\n<p>The nine candidates are:<br \/>\u2022 Lucy Carlson, daughter of Kelly &amp; Kevin Carlson<br \/>\u2022 Amelia Carlstone, daughter of Amanda &amp; Spencer Carlstone<br \/>\u2022 Bella De Haan, daughter of Lindsey &amp; Derek De Haan<br \/>\u2022 Ella Hodgell, daughter of Karla &amp; Dale Hodgell<br \/>\u2022 Emmilyn Riddick, daughter of Jaclyn Stanley<br \/>\u2022 Alice Roose, daughter of Lisa &amp; Jameson Roose<br \/>\u2022 Cami Smith, daughter of Annette &amp; Bryan Smith<br \/>\u2022 Brooklyn Sorheim, daughter of Jenny &amp; Scott Sorheim<br \/>\u2022 Julianne Van Gorp, daughter of Melissa Stephens &amp; Mark Van Gorp<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Tulip Time and upcoming events, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pellahistorical.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.pellahistorical.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t679710549\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser\/30.0 Chrome\/143.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2e2be6d65045ab18a27e07b9866126cb293c689e        <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine Candidates to Participate in 2027 Tulip Queen&#8217;s Announcement Party | KNIA &#8211; KRLS &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-373882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}