Roeselare Particular time during the Roeselaarse Tuesday. Mayor Kris Declercq (CD&V) took the time to get two booths in the flowers. Marie Ellegiers (90) is already seventy years on a weekly basis on the market, since 1958, along with her husband Fernand Hostyn (87). Although the two citizens of ghent were already more than thirty years of age, accompany their son Luc Ostyn weekly to four markets.
“We have never experienced, but it is a moment never to be forgotten.” Marie Ellegiers and Fernand Hostyn are clearly confused after the short tribute by mayor Kris Declercq. They have however more than earned it, because for decades, they are the fixed value on the Roeselaarse Tuesday. Every week they have their textielkraam on the steps of the town hall on the Grote Markt. No loyal marktganger that the couple didn’t know.
