Kortrijk Kortrijk has since this weekend a Doris Verlindeplantsoen, a posthumous tribute to the ‘Queen of the plantjesverkoop for ” Kom op tegen Kanker’. She died at the beginning of last year to cancer. Widower Filiep Vande Wiele is very happy with this tribute to his Doris. “I’m really euphoric, happy, there are no words for.
The title ‘Queen of the plantjesverkoop’ has Doris not stolen. They delegated the plantjesverkoop to Come on Against Cancer since 1994. Thanks to her dedication knew Kortrijk major cities such as Antwerp and Ghent over to cross. In 2014 she established an absolute record, with a sale of up to 10.700 plants. They lost on Thursday 4 January 2018, four years after her battle against a rare form of liver and advanced, metastasized cholangiocarcinoma.
It was the organisation ” Kom op tegen Kanker, which the city of Kortrijk contacted with the question whether Doris may not own the street could get. A ‘street’ had Kortrijk on such short notice is not lined up in the slide, but it was a park along the Fabriekskaai that henceforth the name Doris Verlindeplantsoen bears. “Doris was very committed,” says mayor Vincent Van Quickenborne. “She earned really such a tribute. And with an additional street name given to a woman refers, we are sure to be pleased in Kortrijk.”
“She has done so incredibly much done for KOTK”, says general manager Mark Michils. “It was not only in the plantjesverkoop only. She was also in our group, who advises KOTK, about the actions that we do, what is and what could be done better, about the actions we plan in the future, etc. She was very valuable to our organization.”
Widower Filiep Vande Wiele is very happy with this tribute to his Doris. “I’m really euphoric, happy, there are no words for. Doris was a strong, madame. Not always the easiest to live with, just because they are so committed and solidarity so highly valued was wearing. Not everyone gets a street name as a tribute, I am so very proud.”
Just at the moment where the road sign was unveiled, the sun came through the clouds and pierce. The song ‘because of You’ by Niels Destadsbader, Paul Michiels and Sarah Bettens made some emotion loose. Granddaughters Lena and Emma Vancraeynest were also very proud of this tribute for their ‘mamie’. “We cycle across every day on the way to school. What Mamie themselves had found? Perhaps she had said ‘that all that was not necessary, hear’.’
A bit ironic: Doris Verlinde was one of the leaders of the liberal center Mosaic in Kortrijk, and just in ‘her’ park is a Mariakapelletje that what was forgotten was touched. Still a bit of a ‘clash’ of two levensvisies so there.
Filiep Vande Wiele and mayor Van Quickenborne had it there for a moment after the ceremony. Filiep is not so very enthusiastic about the presence of the chapel, which looks very decrepit state. He wondered what would happen. “First of all, the chapel be restored”, knew Van Quickenborne. “Then we’ll see. Anyway, I remember Doris especially as a very tolerant woman, compared to other ideologies. On a very tumultuous bewonersvergadering about the coming of the mosque in Kortrijk, Doris is still a right, sprung from the public to the law on religion to defend it. Punishment, I thought, for someone who is not a believer.”
