Meppeler Per Kampman completed the bike ride from Stockholm to Meppel on Monday. He used this to raise money for Parkinson. And this week it emerged that Drenthe municipalities are increasingly having difficulty finding staff.
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Per Kampman (47) from Meppel has Parkinson’s but does not let it discourage her. To raise money for research into the disease, he cycled from Stockholm to Meppel.
On Whit Monday he completed the last kilometers of the cycling tour, which totaled more than 1,500 kilometers. He didn’t do that alone. Friends, family, acquaintances and even strangers came to support him.
Kampman has raised more money than hoped. With his campaign he raised more than 25 thousand euros. “My first feeling is pride,” he says. “And adventurous. It went as planned, actually much better.”
Burglars have struck at Andre van Bergen’s concrete drilling company in Hooghalen. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, all kinds of tools were stolen from the company shed on his property in Hooghalen.
The damage amounts to almost one and a half tons. And because Van Bergen does not have an alarm system, the insurer will not reimburse anything. The entrepreneur has filed a report and the police are investigating the matter.
If it is up to TT chairman Arjan Bos, there will be a permanent TT Museum in Assen within two years. The chairman said this at the opening of the pop-up TT museum on Wednesday.
The TT Institute, the technical vocational training course of the DC Terra Colleague close to the circuit, is the location of the pop-up museum. A location close to the TT Circuit is being sought for the permanent museum where the history of more than a century of motorsport is conveyed.
Almost 170 years of history is disappearing now that the !Pet bookstore is permanently disappearing from the streets of Hoogeveen. Curator Jan van Burg, who is looking into the company’s bankruptcy, states that a restart is not possible.
Bids had been received, but they were not high enough. Financial problems are the reason for the collapse of the bookstore. This started after the corona period with rising energy and personnel costs.
In addition, according to the management, people also more often bought a book online instead of in the store.
Drenthe municipalities are increasingly having difficulty finding staff. Many civil servants will retire around 2030 and young civil servants are less likely to have a permanent home than before.
Municipalities must be creative to recruit and retain staff. In Assen they do this with a trainee program for status holders.
Talented, highly educated young status holders are trained internally, which creates motivated trainees. “I would like to give something back to my second home.”
