Good news is not news, it is said. Well we think so! Read here the weekly overview of the sweetest, nicest, most hopeful and funny news from Groningen and Drenthe.
A cloud of a baby for Lois and Joost
Rusks with mice in houses Abbingh/Lieder. Because handball player Lois Abbingh from Groningen gave birth to her son Lev this week. Mother and father and football coach Joost Lieder made the news public with a photo on Instagram.
Due to the brand new motherhood, Lois will miss the European Handball Championship in November in North Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia. And that also applies to her heavily pregnant sister-in-law and Orange goalkeeper Tess Wester. The father-to-be is Mart Lieder, Joost’s brother and football player of FC Emmen. So even more family expansion in the family. And given the genes, they will be sporty children .
For the best exhibition in the country you have to go to the Drents Museum
Recognition from the general public. That is surely the highest that an artist, an athlete or institution can achieve. The Drents Museum in Assen has achieved that status this week. The museum won the Museum Magazine Exhibition Prize with great force majeure for the exhibition ‘ Under the spell of Ararat – Treasures of Ancient Armenia’. Director Harry Tupan was allowed to collect the prize plus a check for 10,000 euros.
Ten thousand votes were cast by museum visitors. The exhibition in Assen won with great force majeure. This means that the Drents Museum conducted an extremely good campaign or that there was simply an extremely good exhibition. According to the visitors, the latter. And the general public is always right. Or not .
The fungus homes in Appingedam are making way for a new fungus-free specimen
A case of all’s well that ends well. In the Gerrit Raapstraat and the Pieter Veningastraat in Appingedam, the residents of nearly 100 homes not only suffered from earthquake damage, but also from large mold growth. They spoke scornfully of the mold houses. Even before the increased gas prices, residents paid about 200 euros a month in heating costs.
At the end of last year it was decided to demolish the houses. But see. The first eight newly built houses were delivered this week. The keys were handed out to the residents. All homes in the two streets will be ready by the end of December. So it is possible .
Wereldwinkel Zuidhorn celebrates 30th anniversary despite competition and corona
The Zuidhorn world shop is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary with a fashion show. Because of corona, it didn’t seem like the sixth lustrum would be reached for a while. In the country, many world shops went under.
The world shop in Zuidhorn could not escape the malaise. Even before corona, the world shop had to watch how consumers purchase things via the internet. There was a lot of money spent on the savings account, but kept their heads above water. Now the board has assured itself of extra volunteers so the fair trade trade can go on to the 35 years .
The passenger train will finally cross the border at Coevorden again
A country border is really just a weird thing. It’s there, but you don’t see it. Yet such a boundary is a huge obstacle to getting anything off the ground on either side of the imaginary line. This was achieved in the border region near Coevorden. The Dutch and German governments have been talking for years about a new rail connection between Coevorden and Bad Bentheim.
Well now. This week, all kinds of hotemetoten came together to sign to have the railway between the two places suitable for passenger transport again by 2025. Berlin – just to name a city, therefore comes a lot closer for travelers from South-East Drenthe. Every now and then a border is crossed that everyone is for for a change .