It was a week of meat and sheep, but also of running and cycling. How exactly is that? That and more you see in the week of Drenthe.
First to the sheep, because they were moved days before the shepherds of Balloo. Both Roergangers, Albert Koopman and Marianne Duinkerken, stop after 45 years. They disappear with their heath sheep from the Balloërveld. The herd is not taken over. “It has just become too heavy a burden, seven days a week into the field,” says Dunkirk about the decision.
A day later we shifted our attention to the Drents Museum. The plans for a new entrance to the Museum Building can currently enter the refrigerator, because the museum management and the municipality cannot resolve it. Architect Erick van Egeraat proposed an entrance in the form of a funnel cup, but the municipality does not like that. Due to the absence of a new entrance, visitors have to wait outside when busy.
With SportApp Strava you can do anything; Maintaining average speed and number of kilometers and set countless times. Runners and cyclists can thus compete in relation to each other. But all that data appear to be fairly easy to find. And that can be dangerous, especially if you are a soldier, it became known on Wednesday.
Hospices can become the child of the account with new cuts on the way. Director Mieke Damsma of Hospice Het Alteveer in Assen is already starting to worry. Together with all national hospices, she made a call for more money on Thursday. “We are calling on politics not to cut back on hospice care. In fact, money has to be added to ensure that all Dutch people, regardless of background and financial facilities, must be accessible,” says Damsma.
Expensive times wait for meat lovers. The price of beef shoots up. The cause of this lies with the supply of meat, which is constantly shrinking. “This is really unique,” notes butcher Roelof Speelman from Assen. “I suddenly pay 50 cents more than usual for a kilo. That is really very big.”