Harke Bosman received the Abel Tasman Medal of Honor from the municipality of Westerkwartier on Friday afternoon.
The former chairman of the Abel Tasman Museum in Lutjegast received the medal in the Kompas village hall, also in Lutjegast, presented by mayor Ard van der Tuuk.
“In the ten years that he was chairman of the Abel Tasman Museum, Harke Bosma has made an extremely valuable contribution to the museum itself, to Lutjegast and the surrounding area, to our municipality of Westerkwartier and to the province of Groningen. In particular also to our contacts in Tasmania, New Zealand and Australia”, Van der Tuuk noted.
“These are extraordinary achievements, with which Harke has been of great added value to many over the past ten years.”
Abel Tasman Medal of Honor
The honorary medal, created in 2019, named after the explorer Abel Tasman (1603 – 1659) born in Lutjegast, symbolizes what you can achieve with the right attitude, according to the municipality of Westerkwartier.
Be winners sooner Richard Kempthorne, former mayor of the New Zealand sister municipality of Tasman District, and cyclist Bauke Mollema.
