Until 31st December 2015, you can visit the exhibition "Christmas, a month of enchantment and traditions in Germany", at the médiathèque of Voiron.
You are invited to the inauguration of the exhibition, preceded by a conference, on Friday 11th December 2015 at 18h30.
Jürgen Witte was made honorary citizen of Voiron by the deputy mayor of Voiron, Mrs Dolores Zambon, at the 10th November 2015 dinner celebrating the twinning partnerships of Voiron, in the presence of the delegations of Bassano del Grappa (headed by Giovanna Ciccotti, Deputy mayor for Culture), of Droitwich Spa (headed by Roy Murphy, deputy mayor) and of the Kreis Herford (headed by Rolf Heemeier, Kreisdirektor).
Mr Jürgen Witte has been an active member of the exchanges between Herford and Voiron for many years. In 1985, he was invited by the then mayor of Voiron, Philippe Vial, to participate in the St Martin's Fair with his gastronomic products. Until 2013, he used to come every year to the Fair with his team and the Herforder sausages and beer, which are still the delight of the people from Voiron and surroundings.
On the Place de l'Europe at Voiron, a plaque is a tribute to the European Union and shows the towns twinned with Voiron. This plaque is a gift from the stonecutter company Prévieux and was engraved as courtesy by Mr Roger Pilot. It was inaugurated in October 2004. Since then, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia have joined the European Union and Droitwich Spa was twinned with Voiron.
To take these changes into account, the plaque was completed and the updated version was inaugurated on 10th November 2015 by the mayor of Voiron, Julien Polat, in the presence of the delegations of Bassano del Grappa (headed by Giovanna Ciccotti, Deputy mayor for Culture), of Droitwich Spa (headed by Roy Murphy, deputy mayor) and of the Kreis Herford (headed by Rolf Heemeier, Kreisdirektor).
Following the terrorist attacks at Paris and Saint Denis Friday 13th November 2015, representatives of Bassano del Grappa, Droitwich Spa and Herford expressed their sympathy towards the Comité de Jumelage de Voiron (Twinning Committee of Voiron).
Citizens of Herford and Löhne observed a moment of silence in front of their townhalls - see the press articles attached.
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Six students from the "Maison Familiale et Rurale" Coublevie participated from 12th to 18th October 2015 in a meeting of 35 young people from Sibenik (Croatia), Voiron (France), Herford (Germany), Bassano del Grappa (Italy) and Gorzow (Poland). The topic of the working groups was "Refugees in Europe".
Thanks to the work accomplished by the technical services of Voiron, the signs at the entries of Voiron show that Croatia joined the European Union (on 1 July 2013).
Mr Jürgen Müller (SPD) was elected Landrat of the Kreis Herford Voiron is twinned with, succeeding to Mr Christian Manz. The Landrat is the highest administrative authority of the Kreis.
During a month from 19 September, Bassano Fotografia organizes a large exhibition on various viewpoints on Bassano and surroundings. Jadikan, a specialist of "lightpainting", exposes his pictures and presents them at Palazzo Buonaguro on 23rd September. The Voiron Twinning Committee is happy to have contributed to this exhibition.
We learned that the Volkshochschule of Herford is organizing crash German language courses for the 700 refugees expected soon at Herford.
