"Fell down at the back, the old ones": Missing senior citizens' day at "Summer in the city" causes annoyance

The fact that there is no senior citizens' day at Freising's “Summer in the City” causes annoyance.

Folk festival speaker and organizers comment on this.

Freising

- At the Freising Volksfest it is a good tradition to invite senior citizens to chicken and beer in the tent.

The fact that there is now no adequate substitute for the senior afternoon at the alternative event “Summer in the City” annoyed an FT reader.

"I am pleased that the 'normal children's day' has also been carried over to the Freising 'summer in the city', and that it has even been extended," said Freising, who reported to the FT via Facebook.

The question he asks: “Where is the carryover for senior citizens?

Chicken and beer brand, down to the Luitpoldanlage with the grandchildren and meet other specials “- none of that was obviously not an issue when organizing the family park.

The rhetorical question of the Freisinger: "Fell down at the back, the old ones?"

FT readers feel sorry for the seniors who have suffered from the pandemic

The FT reader - incidentally not a senior himself - finds this particularly regrettable because older people were most excluded from social life over long stretches of the pandemic and with a high vaccination rate they would have done a lot for society. “What have they taken on!” Therefore, he is also annoyed that there is no sign of appreciation for senior citizens from the city of Freising.

When asked about the criticism, Volksfest speaker Anton Frankl said: "We have already thought about offering something to senior citizens." Unfortunately, in times of the pandemic, no sensible solution was found.

On the one hand, when organizing a senior citizens' day, due to the lack of a beer tent, one was completely dependent on the weather.

On the other hand, the existing beer garden is limited to a maximum of 400 guests due to the corona.

“But we have several thousand senior citizens who receive invitations from us during normal times.” By way of comparison: there are around 9,000 seats available in the beer tent.

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Frankl's conclusion: "The seniors would have been worth it to us in any case, but we haven't found a way to do it properly." Karl Kollmann, the organizer of the family park, also expressed his regret to the Freisinger Tagblatt.

“I would have loved to do something for our older fellow citizens.

But we couldn't have placed seniors in the beer garden well. "

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