Tag: OLDWATER
Oudewater accommodates 11 underage refugees, local VVD angry about lack of prior communication
The local VVD finds it incomprehensible that the announcement about the shelter was shared “without any involvement or information in advance”. “Migration is an important theme that we must talk…
Christmas dinner in the Oudewater residential care center is a ‘highlight’ for residents
More than a hundred residents live in the Oudewater residential care center. “Christmas dinners are extra fun for our residents,” says Verschuur. What exactly was on the menu? “We are…
A dike army and sandbagging science: Oudewater reenacts an impending dike disaster
Since Monday, the De Stichtse Rijnlanden Water Board has been organizing the multi-day crisis exercise ‘IJssel’ together with Defense and the municipality of Oudewater. A total of more than thirty…
MBO students are taught how to strengthen dikes: ‘Putting your finger in doesn’t always make sense’
“Formation, formation, we have to continue,” shouts the only female student. The dike is not yet high enough, is the Defense conclusion. But then the students no longer know where…
What if? Oudewater reenacts impending dike disaster: ‘Climate change increases chance’
Since Monday, the De Stichtse Rijnlanden Water Board has been organizing the multi-day crisis exercise ‘IJssel’ together with Defense and the municipality of Oudewater. A total of more than thirty…
Wild animals can now safely take the fauna passage at the Hollandsche IJssel
The depression is also called a ‘Fauna Exit Place’ and was constructed by the De Stichtse Rijnlanden Water Board. At the place where the depression is made, deer, badgers, wild…
Oudewater finds a new councilor thanks to an appeal in the local newspaper: Bernadette Schomaker will succeed Ten Hagen
At the end of September, Oudewater councilor Ivo ten Hagen announced that he would resign within a year. The municipality decided to publish it in the local newspaper The IJsselbode…
Scammer leaves Kattenhotel Dotje in Oudewater in ruins and financial problems
Kattenhotel Dotje says it has been ‘the hotel and boarding house for your cat, rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, or any other non-barking pet for more than 12.5 years’. But the…
Crisis emergency shelter in Oudewater closes, province looking for new places: ‘Investigating multiple locations’
The question now is who can take over from Oudewater, the next wagon in the train. As far as the VRU is concerned, the temporary shelter in the De Noort…
Ivo ten Hagen will resign as councilor in Oudewater within a year
The VVD member tells the city council that he has been politically active for thirty years. Ten Hagen was also an alderman in Boskoop, Hillegom, Woerden and Montfoort. “I notice…