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Good morning! Today the government continues its search for support for the budget and this week extra attention is paid to fall prevention among the elderly. First the weather: in the north and west it will be a cloudy day with occasional showers. The sun shines regularly inland.
Henk Dillerop wrote a book about ’forty years of murder and other inconvenience in Leeuwarden’. The former detective and former prison director describes violent crimes between 1975 and 2015.
Many municipalities are forced to increase the waste levies. This is due to higher state tax.
Due to a major fire at the De Grote Keizer bowling center in Leeuwarden, the Spelend Sporten sports association has lost its regular venue. The association organizes sports and activities for people with intellectual disabilities. As a result, their biweekly bowling night, one of their most popular activities, cannot take place for the time being.
Fryslân Blooms is like an oil stain. Originating from Arcadia, the foundation that shapes and manages the legacy of Leeuwarden/Fryslân Cultural Capital 2018, one village was helped in 2023 to organise a flowering week. A year later, there were seven and in 2025 almost thirty. The ambition is to make Fryslân the sixth Blue Zone in the world.
"We give outdoor fitness lessons from a small sports container. And that container can be anywhere. We now have some twenty throughout the Netherlands. There are five of them in Friesland (Joure, Heerenveen, Sneek, Leeuwarden and Drachten) and one in the city of Groningen," says Erjen de Bildt.
Fryslân Blooms is like an oil stain. Originating from Arcadia, the foundation that shapes and manages the legacy of Leeuwarden/Fryslân Cultural Capital 2018, one village was helped in 2023 to organise a flowering week. A year later, there were seven and in 2025 almost thirty. The ambition is to make Fryslân the sixth Blue Zone in the world.
The first social food gardens were created in Nieuwehorne and Darp six years ago. The initiators found each other and soon became a source of information for others who also wanted something like this. Fochteloo, Leeuwarden, Appingedam and Zuidlaren followed. And then much more.
Figures from VeiligheidNL show that around 124,000 elderly people ended up in emergency care last year after a fall, mostly with severe injuries. The number of serious fall incidents among seniors has increased by 16 percent over the past decade. A national awareness week has been launched to focus on fall prevention.
Several Dutch hospitals are experiencing computer problems with Citrix this weekend that prevent patients from viewing their data. The National Cyber Security Center reports that there were vulnerabilities in the Citrix program Netscaler, which have now been fixed. Z-Cert, the center of expertise for cybersecurity in healthcare, had therefore warned hospitals of problems at Citrix as a precaution. of “critical vulnerabilities”.
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