A protest in the stable, staff shortages and a new chapter in the discussion about amateur archaeologist Tjerk Vermaning. That and more formed the Drenthe news last week.
Many meadows in Drenthe remained empty on Monday. Farmers kept their cows in stables as a protest. The farmers are afraid that in the future they will need a permit to graze their cows and they protested against this with the ‘May 30 cow from the meadow’ campaign.
Any car owner who recently had to pay for fuel at the pump knows: fuel prices are skyrocketing. In Germany they went down last week, and that caused crowds at the pump just across the border.
Forty percent of entrepreneurs in Drenthe are faced with staff shortages. It means closing the business, an uncertain future and finding creative solutions.
“We have had too few staff for months. I had hoped that it would run smoothly after corona, but it does not,” says catering entrepreneur Arjan Vosseberg.
A 34-year-old motorist was killed in a serious accident on Thursday in Eelde. With his bus he collided with an oncoming car on the Burgemeester JG Legroweg. The driver of the other vehicle suffered leg injuries.
‘The biggest archaeological fraud ever’, according to the authors of the book Valsheid in gesteente, amateur archaeologist Tjerk Vermaning was involved in this. The brain behind Vermaning’s forgeries is Ad Wouters, a former priest in Brabant.
“Vermaning has also made good finds, but there are very few. The most striking artifacts, about 1500 that we have examined, are forged,” says author and archaeologist Frans de Vries.