From the bankruptcy of the Veenpark to a sheep herd on the Hei, an emotional commemoration in Westerbork, building plans in Assen and worried about digital safety. This is the week of Drenthe.
A hard blow to the Veenpark in Bargercompascuum. At the beginning of the week it was announced that the park requested bankruptcy. An unexpected financial disappointment, in combination with urgent payment obligations, ensured that the park no longer had another choice. The bankruptcy was pronounced by the judge on Tuesday. The bankruptcy application of the Veenpark unexpectedly came for the municipality of Emmen. “We were still talking about a possible solution,” said Alderman Pascal Schrik (Wakker Emmen).
A new herd of sheep with Herder Julie Teunen has been running on the heath near Balloo. But the herd hardly stays in the sheepfold itself. The stable is not resistant to attacks of wolves and therefore the sheep spend the night in a different place.
The night stay of the sheep is completely open on one side. The foundation that manages the sheepfold is not comfortable with the fact that the wall of the cage is high enough to keep wolves out. The herd will therefore be staying in meadows surrounded by a movable wolf -resistant grid in the coming period.
Around 75 Moluccans met on Wednesday at the Kamp Westerbork Memorial Center. From Westerbork the participants walked to the Moluccan neighborhood in Assen.
The walk symbolizes the departure of the first generation of Moluccans from the barracks in the residential resort to Huizen in Assen. That happened in 1965 and marked a sensitive moment in the history of Drenthe. For many Moluccans, it now became painfully clear that they would not return to their birthplace, but that they were supposed to stay permanently in the Netherlands.
“It’s a special place for me,” says Isaac Pattikawa from Zutphen. “My parents were brought through the Netherlands and I was born here,” he says. The march ran in Pattikawa with his parents today. “It is a commemoration for me, but I also enjoy walking.”
There is no money yet, but the plans are back on the table: the Asenahmoskee in Assen will be further phased out after three years of standstill. An earlier conflict with the contractor stopped the project at the time. Now there is a phased rebuilding and financed.
“Financing for the mosque is difficult, in particular because you can’t put a million or two on the bill. That is why we proceed per phase. As soon as a budget is available, the contractor can continue,” says the chairman of the Sunnah Mosque Assen, Mohamed El Mourabit.
The goal is to have the mosque ready for use in March 2026.
In Drenthe, too, many women who participated in the population screening cervical cancer were victims of the hack at the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory. Similarly Andrea Westerveld from Assen. She has already fallen victim to the allowance affair and fears unjustified fraud vacations due to the data breach.
The captured data through the hack is about name, address and place of residence, date of birth, social security number, results of tests and names of care providers. A limited number of women also involves e-mail addresses or telephone numbers. Women who were victims have been called to stay alert to possible fraud.