Royal Award for Angelique Heijnen
Angelique Heijnen, office manager of the secretariat of the department ‘Health, Ethics and Society’, received a Royal Award on behalf of the King of the Netherlands.
She received the award because of her major contributions to socio-cultural activities in the middle of our Province, more especially activities linked with the memory of our Liberation at the end of WW II.
Angelique has been appointed a Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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