Vidin solemnly celebrated the Day of People’s Awakeners, November 1. Pupils, teachers, cultural workers, representatives of institutions and citizens took part in a festive procession from the central square “Bdintsi” to the monument of Sophronius Vrachanski – a clergyman and folk revivalist, who lived in the city for three years and wrote during that time the famous Vidin Collections .
On the Day of People’s Awakeners, people working in the field of culture go out for a national protest. The organizer is the National Federation “Culture” under the Confederation of Labor “Support”. The protest is against humiliatingly low wages.
With an average of 240 kg per acre, the yields of corn in Montansko are better than last year’s harvest. At 80% harvested areas, out of 368,000 decares, farmers have harvested 718 kg per decare, with 468 kg from the 2022 harvest. Only in the municipalities of Lom and Chiprovtsi, the corn harvest has ended, the regional Directorate of Agriculture specified.
203 young people are unemployed in the municipalities of Vratsa and Krivodol, this is shown by the data of the labor office for September. 141 under the age of 29 from Vratsa and the villages of the municipality are unemployed, 62 are looking for a living in Krivodolsko.
Plans for winter maintenance of Danube Bridge 2 and the adjacent infrastructure on the Bulgarian and Romanian sides have been approved. This was said by Vasil Benov, executive director of the company that manages the facility. The contracts are for the period until April 1, 2024.
85% of the preparation for work in winter conditions in the Vidin Waterworks has been completed. It will be completely finished by the middle of next month.
The district prosecutor’s office in Montana ordered an investigation into publications in the media about the falsification of the election results by an official in the village of Gabrovnica.
Complaints against the election of the mayor and municipal councilors in the municipality of Varshets have been filed to the Administrative Court in Montana from Nedyalko Tomov, candidate for mayor of Varshets from the PP-DB coalition, reports from the regional structure of “We continue the change”. The complaints are based on numerous and gross violations of the electoral process during the reporting of the results, which raises doubts about their illegality, the PP points out. Out of a total of 2,846 submitted ballots for municipal councilors, 1,005 were invalid, which is 35.3% – well above the national average. The previous mayor won in the first round with 50.43% or 16 votes, which, given the number of violations established, raises serious doubts about the credibility of this result, the party also reported.
There will be only one runoff in Kula municipality on Sunday. The vote will be in the municipal center, where no mayor was elected in the first round.
Vandals destroyed three of the new waste bins in Vidin’s Rova park. This morning, cleaning workers assessed the damage and recalled that the dishes had been installed less than two weeks ago.
Students from “St. Kliment Ohridski” Secondary School in the Mezdran village of Zverino participated in the cleaning and improvement of the Cherepish Monastery“Assumption of the Virgin” during the short fall break. On the occasion of the 145th anniversary of the establishment of the Bulgarian Red Cross and on the eve of one of the most Bulgarian holidays, November 1 – the Day of the People’s Alarmists, students from the school gave up their personal time and helped the repair activities on the inner part of the most beautiful monastery in the Iskar Gorge.
The Bulgarian cycle route along the Danube River and Dobrudja to the Black Sea “Danube Ultra”, which has been starting from the Vidin region for 10 years now, entered the annual ranking of the guidebook publisher Lonely Planet for the top 50 recommended destinations worldwide in 2024.
The youth center in Montana organizes a photo contest “Beauties of the Northwest”. It is open to visual storytellers aged 15 to 29. Everyone can participate with just one author’s photo of impressive places, amazing views and inspiring people from our region. Participation is intended only for young people from the Montana region.
The book “Old History of Makresh” written by Dr. Necho Ivanov (Chernopolski) will be presented in Makresh. The performance is tomorrow, November 2, at 10:00 a.m. in the lobby of the “Mito Markov-1912” community center. – Makresh village.
