{"id":4973,"date":"2014-03-23T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2014-03-23T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:23:27","slug":"devos-foundation-gives-250000-to-2-1-million-hollands-windmill-island-gardens-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/23\/devos-foundation-gives-250000-to-2-1-million-hollands-windmill-island-gardens-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVos Foundation gives $250,000 to $2.1 million Holland&#8217;s Windmill Island Gardens renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4975\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/636px-Windmillisland1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4975\" alt=\"Windmill Island during Tulip Time 2005. (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/636px-Windmillisland1.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/636px-Windmillisland1.jpg 636w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/636px-Windmillisland1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windmill Island during Tulip Time 2005. (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-4975\">HOLLAND, Mich. &#8211; The effort to raise $2.1 million for restoration of the Windmill Island Gardens in downtown Holland has received a boost from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Rapids Press (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1gqr9GE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1gqr9GE<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>) reports that the foundation has donated $250,000 toward renovations of the gardens, which include the 252-year-old DeZwaan windmill.<\/p>\n<p>Holland Finance Director Tim Vagle says that brings the amount of money raised so far to about $1.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration of the DeZwaan windmill wrapped up in the fall, and efforts continue for other island projects. They include restoration of the Amsterdam street organ and carousel.<\/p>\n<p>Holland officials have approved plans to turn over operation of Windmill Island Gardens to a non-profit group by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofholland.com\/windmillislandgardens\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cityofholland.com\/windmillislandgardens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLAND, Mich. &#8211; The effort to raise $2.1 million for restoration of the Windmill Island Gardens in downtown Holland has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[731,828,1328],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-mi","tag-restoration","tag-windmill","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}