05/07/2026
Hard to believe it has been nearly a week since the 2026 Dutch Days Festival! For anyone involved in any type of organization you know it takes many hands to pull it off. The Dutch Days Committee wants to say THANK YOU to those that helped make this years festival happen - and one of the best yet, in my humble opinion!
This is most likely missing someone as there is much that happens and many involved - so please know this Thank You extends to them as well. If you know someone that was a part of what is listed and enjoyed this years festival - please tell them thank you.
• Fulton Fire Department - filling the water tubs
• Fulton Public Works for movement & placement of many large items onto 4th street
• Fulton Police Department for setting up No Parking areas & keeping everyone safe
• Fulton EMS for being on standby to keep everyone safe during the festival
• FFA Students for Setting up & Taking down the street seating
• Volunteers who placed the water tubs & put them away
• Fulton EMS & PD again for the quick response to the emergency that did happen on Saturday
• Frary Lumber who donates the wood for the seating
• Quality Ready Mix Concrete who donates many of the cinder blocks for the seating
• Diamon Drives who donated the usage of a forklift & Andy for driving the forklift
• Merschman Fertilizer, LLC for allowing parking on their properly & shutting down on Saturday to allow the street to be closed for the kids activities
• Fulton’s Downtown Business owners for the support of the festival & handling the street closures
• Historical Society for the usage of the Fidelity Drives Building for the Art Show
• Schmaling Memorial Public Library – for running the Wooden Shoe Races
• Alex Turnquist for being our night time security guard & still helping out with many things during the day time
• Christmas Walk Committee for the usage of the sidewalk poles for the Art Show
• Unity Christian School for donation of containers of shoes & costumes and usage of their old school gym for dance practice
• de Immigrant Millers & Windmill Cultural Center volunteers for working & answering numerous questions throughout the day
• Community State Bank for running Chalk the D**e
• Stoecker Trucking for the trailer for our main stage
• Wherry Bros Trucking for delivering & picking the trailer
• Larry Russell for the usage of his golf cart
• Larry Buikema for usage of his trailer to move the tubs & other needed items from storage to their places
• Bethel CRC for the usage of their parking lot for dance practice & carrying on the tradition of Poffertjes
• Sauk Valley Impact Program
• Everyone involved in Saturday’s Street Scrubbing
• All of the Dutch Dancers & their families
• Information Booth Volunteers
• Fashion Show Participants
• Riverbend School district staff for organizing the 5K
