Mayor Considers Visits to Elderly Couples a Waste of Time, Council Critical

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They married around 1966. They built up this country, worked, paid taxes, and raised children. Sixty years later, the mayor of Goeree-Overflakkee no longer pays a visit. Mayor Ada Grootenboer-Dubbelman (CDA) feels there are too many of them. In March, the municipal council demanded that the visit...

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The mayor asks municipal council members to take over her duties, but they respond negatively.

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Mayor Ada Grootenboer-Dubbelman of Goeree-Overflakkee has too little time to visit couples who have been married for sixty years. She asks municipal council members to take over her task, but they react negatively. "It is being thrown over the fence," they say angrily.