Dean Vreugdenhil is a forward for the football club WVF and has already scored three league goals. In the last cup match against BAS (a 0-3 win), he also scored a great free kick into the top corner. In short, things are going well for the 18-year-old Zwolle native in the first team of the soccer club of Westenholte.
I am Pieter P Vreugdenhil (K XI bf) and I live in Lower Sackville, Canada. I am married, father of four boys, and grandfather of five young ladies. I was born in 1945 in Maassluis as one of nine children, son of Cornelis Jan Vreugdenhil (K X z) and Johanna van der Eijk. The family emigrated to Canada in 1952 and settled in Chatham, Ontario.
The chance that Vreugdenhil, a 27-year-old consultant for multinationals in strategic negotiation projects, would break the world record was very high. Because the last time the record was improved on natural ice was in 1928. At that time, the Frenchman Leon Quaglia achieved a distance of 32.970 km in Chamonix. And in 1949, the Dutchman Marius Strijbis also made an attempt in Hamar, Norway. On February 7, 1949, he reached a distance of 32.660 meters on natural ice. That was then the best performance of a Dutchman on natural ice ever.
Together with his wife Els and two other volunteers, Bram Vreugdenhil from the AK Foundation (Christmas Greetings Action) left in the early morning, while it was still dark, to the Ukrainian city of Beregsász, a twin city of Maassluis, with (medical) aid supplies and 25,000 euros to buy stoves and other items.
Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods and food producer Nestlé are work together on more sustainable dairy production and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the Low Carbon Farming pilot, they are working with seventeen dairy farmers to identify individual solutions for their farms.
A message
Irma Moekestorm-Vreugdenhil from Maasland writes books for children. She has written twelve picture books and one poetry collection for adults, all published by Buddy Books in Almere. She believes it’s important for her stories to have humor and a lesson: there must be something recognizable that children can relate to and benefit from. In other words, her books have a message.
More and more cancer patients can – if they want – get their treatment at home. An oncological nurse and two patients explain how it works. Since June last year a very eyecatching contraption graces the streets of Amsterdam: a hospital cargo-bike. Four oncological nurses of the OLVG (Amsterdam city hospital) can use it to visit and treat their patients at home. Two days a week, no matter the weather, they bike through the city, the cargo bike loaded with a well-fill backpack, a collapsible drip, and a special chemo waste bin. “I biked 32 kilometers (20 miles) in one day a while ago,” Laura Vreugdenhil (54), one of the oncological nurses who participate. “In the pouring rain! Luckily our carge bike is electric-driven ánd we’ve got proper rain suits.”
After 12 years of salaried employment Tamara Vreugdenhil became a podcast-creator: “This is really fun to do!” Tamara creates podcasts with which she wants to inspire others to make their dreams come true. In her podcast ‘TipvanTam’ she interviews entrepreneurs from Delft who really love what they do. In her podcast Tamara asks them which steps they took to get where they are now.
Since 1919 the Vreugdenhil company has been in De Lier. It was started by Arie Vreugdenhil as a blacksmith in the middle of the village high street. He was a well known blacksmith in De Lier and, next to his job as blacksmith, he also worked as a contractor. After a while he noticed the appearance of many competitors and decided to focus on tractors and farming equipment, leading to the move of Vreugdenhil Mechanisatie to the new location. See picture on the right: the Hoogweg in 1927 where a new barn was build next to the house.
The new church window building of the reformed church in Beekbergen has been crowned with a large stained glass window. The new church has been christened Eben-Haëzer. “The Lord has guided us here.” The stained glass window, located in the large hallway, represents everything that is important and distinctive for the community in the Veluwe area. In the centre it shows the grey stone Eben-Haëzer. A brook ripples its way around it. Trees represent the forested area in the sloping landscape around the village. “The wide beam of yellow light shows that everything comes from heaven,” says Rev. A. Schreuder during the official opening of the church. EbenHaëzer, the Lord has guided us here. The design is by Mrs. A. van de Craats and the stained glass has been assembled and build by stained-glass atelier De Glazen Zee (The Glass Sea). The window consists of nine panels which form the large 2.5 by 6 meter window (approx. 8 by 20 ft.). The panels are build in layered, anti-reflexive, insulating glass.
