GGs Newsletter December 2, 2014

Contributors: 1st row from the left: Jonathan Ray, Oscar Grönlund, Einar Nordström, Amanda Ohvo

2nd row from the left: Gustav Wiik, Wilhelm von Weissenberg, Thomas Ahlroth, Laura Lindholm 3rd row from the left: Alex Korpela, Mathias Kaarnimo, Jonas Kylliäinen, Niklas Kankkunen

Missing from photo: Julia Svartström, Jessica Rautelin, Petra Pölönen, Sara Wilhelmsson, Casper Törmä

Table of Contents:

p. 1 Introduction

The Swedish-speaking minority in Finland p. 2 Editorial We have to prioritize more! p. 3-4 Local & Domestic News Helsinki is the eighth cleanest city in the world Public transport in the Helsinki region p. 5-6 International news Russia keeps on violating the Scandinavian territory p. 7 Opinion section Driving school prices are too high! p. 8-17 Entertainment Digiexpo - too much of the same? Electronic Dance Music, the new generation Three ways to satisfy your stomach p. 18-19 Sports Jokerit - Hockey for everyone Sporting possibilities in Grankulla

The Swedish-speaking minority in Finland

Grankulla is a city with around 8000

inhabitants. It’s a twenty minute trip from the

capital, Helsinki. In Grankulla 38% of the

inhabitants are Swedish-speaking so we are

a minority. Grankulla is one of the most

Swedish cities in southern Finland. When you

go a bit more northeast in Finland you come

to Ostrobothnia where the Swedish-speaking

Finns are the majority. We ourselves, are 16-

18-year-old adolescents.

Swedish-speaking Finns are a big minority in

Finland. We are about 5% of the Finnish

population. There are even a few well known

Swedish-speaking Finns from history, for

example Tove Jansson, the creator of

Moomin, a well known children’s books

character. Moreover, in the rally industry we

have Marcus Grönholm, who is a professional

rally driver.

Most Swedish-speaking Finns live along the coast of Finland, in Ostrobothnia and the south and

southwest of Finland

Swedish-speaking Finns have been in

Finland since the 12th century so our history

is long. Though the history is long, the

percentage is decreasing with each passing

moment, but not by a lot. The majority of the

Swedish-speaking Finns live along the coast.

This has a historical explanation since we

moved from Sweden and didn’t move from

the coast to the inner parts of Finland.

Though Swedish-speaking Finns are a

minority, we do have our own tv channel, Yle

FST5, and many different radio channels.

When it comes to sports events and such

things, you can change the language on tv,

streaming the programme in Swedish instead

of in Finnish.

Jonathan Ray, Petra Pölönen & Gustav Wiik

Editorial

We have to prioritize more!

Ice hockey, skiing, football, handball, floorball etc. All these sports and spare-time

activities are available for you to practice in the city of Grankulla. But is that really

necessary? Of course it is important to have spare-time activities. But is it necessary for

the municipality to financially support all these spare-time opportunities, when the

schools are in more need of money? When the zeitgeist is characterized by recession

we should support schools and education. We can’t waste money on multiple spare-

time activities when we have to educate individuals to get this recession to take a turn

for the better. You can always spend your spare-time doing things you like, but to learn

and get educated is very hard to do by yourself.

Therefore, I think that the municipality should cut down on the budget for the spare-time

activities offered by the municipality and increase schools’ opportunities by helping them

with their economy.

Einar Nordström

Local & Domestic News

Helsinki is the eighth cleanest city in the world

According to the research

listofwonders.com has conducted,

Helsinki is the eighth cleanest city in the

world. Calgary, Canada was at the top of

the list, which only continued until top ten.

To many Finns it can come as a surprise

how clean Helsinki really is, but if you

have travelled a lot around the world you

might see it better. Those who visit

Helsinki in their everyday life don’t see

the environment in the same way as

tourists do. Maybe also Finns should start

valuing their capital a little bit more.

According to the research Helsinki is a

city with culture and education in its

centre and the architecture is well

planned. This provides beautiful

landscapes and that is why Helsinki is on

the top ten list.

Julia Svartström & Laura Lindholm

Public Transport in the

Helsinki region

Bus lines are being changed to metros

The whole next year there is going to be built

a metro line instead of buses. This project is

going to be situated a few kilometres before

Mattby. They are going to widen the highway

so that the metro stations get room and so

the traffic will run neatly. This is about many

kilometres of asphalt. During 2014-2015

Västerleden will become better between

Esboviken and Mattby in many ways. The

public transport traffic ramp from Västerleden

to Marknadsgatan that is included in the

project, will open for the buses when the west

metro starts to traffic the line. The metro is

going to run from Esboviken to Helsinki,

which will make it easier for people who live

in Stenvik as they get an extension of the

West metro.

Investments affect the ticket prices

Finland has made big investments in public

transport in the Helsinki region lately, for

example the metro and bus traffic is

expanding. The metro is now only in the

centre of Helsinki, but it is now expanding

also to the west side. That ends up in more

expenses that results in more expensive

tickets. Unfortunately, the politicians have

decided to raise the price on the monthly

ticket, which allows you to travel between

Helsinki and for example Espoo.

One of the buses passing our school.

In today’s society it is best for nature if we

use public transport, but with this decision the

message is really too divided. The question

is, why they didn’t just raise the one-way

ticket? The raise isn’t so huge, it is 3 € on 30

days, but to students and pensioners it is. We

have to remember that the Finnish state is

paying the majority of the costs that public

transport provides and what we have to pay is

only a fraction. The bus ticket is pretty

expensive, but to keep the public transport

system going is really expensive. The best

solution would have been to raise the one-

way ticket price, because then people would

have got the right message. Now the

message is wrong and it makes people angry

and some people might stop using the public

transport and use their own car instead.

Julia Svartström & Laura Lindholm

International news

Russia keeps on violating the Scandinavian territory

Sweden’s defense forces searched for the intruding submarine for over a week. If it was indeed

a real submarine, it would have been a serious insult on the Swedish borders. The submarine

was rumoured to be a tiny stealth submarine the Russians were testing.

Russian submarine spotted inside of Sweden’s

maritime borders in the Swedish archipelago.

The rumours

It was rumoured that the submarine was

in the archipelago on a mission to map

the waters of the archipelago, for future

use. It was also rumoured that the

submarine was damaged and therefore

sent an emergency message, which the

Swedish sign intelligence picked up on.

Other rumours included that the

submarine planted mines or signalling

equipment, cold war era device

maintenance and other things. It had not

yet been confirmed that there had been a

submarine there at all.

What we know

A 27-year-old Swedish man took a picture

of the rumoured submarine in the

Swedish archipelago on Sunday the 19th

of October.

“It rose quietly to the surface, glided 5-6

meters forward and submerged again”,

the man told Aftonbladet.

The man says he saw some kind of a

tower on the vessel, but no flags or other

symbols, which sounds plausible if the

submarine is a smaller stealthier class.

Not the first time

It is known that Russian military aircraft

have already entered the Finnish airspace

without permission and declined to

answer the radio calls several times

before. It has been speculated that the

reason they are doing this is because

they are testing the response times of

other military forces. The Russian

government has declined every

accusation of territorial violation.

Update: November 6

The submarine has not been found,

and there has been no further

evidence of it. It has most likely found

its way out, and returned to

international waters.

Update November 17

It has been confirmed that it was

indeed a submarine that was seen in

the Swedish archipelago, but the

nationality is unknown.

Wilhelm v. Weissenberg & Niklas Kankkunen

Opinion section

Driving school prices are too high!

Some time ago I started my driving school to get

my driver’s license. Like many others I would like

to get my driver’s license when I turn 18. While I

had heard that driving school would be expensive,

still it wasn’t until I started driving school myself

that I realised just how expensive it actually is. I

was shocked! How can something that almost

everyone gets cost that much? Especially when

it’s young people, who usually don’t have too

much money that are getting this. And if you really

can’t afford the driver’s license you can’t get a car

which might make it harder to get to places. And

here in Kauniainen and Espoo the public transit

isn’t that good. Having a car is already very

expensive, so the possibility to have a car

shouldn’t be limited by the price of the driving

school!

Alex Korpela, Espoo

To the editor,

There are a lot of questions in Finnish society about bilingualism. A minority in Finland speaks both Finnish and Swedish. The people that only speak Finnish have the chance to learn Swedish in school; it is a must for them to take some lessons/courses in Swedish while they are in primary school and junior high. They are given the chance to learn Swedish which would increase their opportunities to get a job in the future. But the problem that we have is that many of the “Finnish-speaking Finns” are of that opinion that they think it is unnecessary for them to learn Swedish. They do not see the need in learning Swedish and they want to take away the Swedish courses in schools.

I see no disadvantage in being bilingual. There are only benefits. We who are Swedish-speaking Finns can communicate with the other Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark), because we have similar languages. It is also proved that it is easier to learn other languages if you can speak Swedish, since the Swedish language has its roots in the English language as well as in the French language etc.

As earlier mentioned it is always a benefit if you can speak many languages when searching for a job. There are too many people who are unemployed due to the recession today. But when the economy starts to improve the businesses and companies will seek for individuals who can communicate in many languages. They can help the companies grow internationally. Therefore I cannot simply get the hang of why there is any hesitation or ambiguity about bilingualism.

Einar Nordström, Finland

Entertainment

DIGIEXPO - too much of the same?

Digiexpo, the biggest electronic trade fair in

Finland, held between the 31.10 and 2.11 at

the Helsinki Exhibition Center. It is an annual

event which is always held on the on the first

weekend of November. Digiexpo is the main

event, but alongside it four other expos were

held as well, which were Hifi-, Board- and

Skiexpo as well as Lätkä&Säbä. I decided to

go to the Helsinki Exhibition Center, to see

what the expos had to offer. In this article I

will focus mostly on the main event.

Arrival As mentioned earlier, the fair trades were

organized in Helsinki Exhibition Center, the

biggest exhibition center in Finland. It is

located a few hundred meters from Pasila

railway station, which is a few kilometers

away from the city center, so getting there

wasn’t difficult. The first problem of the event

was encountered right away when you walk

through the main entrance. The prices are

quite high compared to what the trade fair has

to offer. For a person above 15 years of age

the price is €18, which I would be happy to

pay if I visited a bigger expo like Gamescom

in Cologne, but here I think it’s a bit too much.

Fortunately though, there are people selling

their invitational tickets outside the entrance,

for instance my friend managed to buy one

for €5. After paying for the ticket I went to the

hall where Digi-, Board- and Skiexpo were

held. I decided to check out Digiexpo first,

since that appealed to me the most.

TVs and more Digiexpo is mostly about electronic

entertainment, which is games and gaming

equipment, but there was also a section with

cameras, TV’s and some speakers, which I

decided to check first. The speakers weren't

anything special, since there were much

better ones at the Hifiexpo section, which I

will talk about later. You could test some high

quality Nikon cameras with some quite high

quality camera lenses, which I did, but you

couldn’t have any pictures. The TV section

was the most impressive one. There was a

Philips 4K TV showing Barça play football at

60 frames per second in 3840 x 2160

resolution, I got really impressed by that since

the picture quality was so high and the player

movement was so smooth, it almost looked

like a video game.

Games, games, games

Then I moved towards the electronic

entertainment section, and first up was

PlayStation. The PlayStation section was

basically made up of an area with a dance

stage in the middle where people could go

and try some dance game, and around that

there were small sections where you could try

different games, there was also one area

where people above 18 could try some

upcoming games. At the PlayStation area I

tried Destiny, Driveclub and FIFA 15, and I

enjoyed them all, I even got a cool t-shirt for

trying destiny. FIFA 15 was good, but wasn’t

anything special, and since the core

gameplay of the FIFA games doesn't change

that much in one year, it made playing FIFA

15 feel almost like playing FIFA 14 plus some

minor new features and updated teams. The

NHL games also suffer a bit from the same

problem, however NHL 15 did undergo some

big changes. Both the FIFA and NHL series

are quite well displayed every year in the

expo, but because the changes between the

versions are fairly small, they start to make

the expo a bit repetitive, at least if you have

visited the expo every year for four years

straight.

After PlayStation I went to the Xbox zone to

check out what they had to offer. The area

also had different sections with different

games, in the same way as the PlayStation

area, but instead of a stage Xbox it had an

Xbox Truck, and in its trailer people over the

age of 18 could try out the new Call of Duty.

Both FIFA15 and NHL15 were also once

again playable here as well as displayed,

adding to the repetitiveness.

Halo Master Chief Collection was quite nice,

though I didn't get to play it that much.

Otherwise there wasn't really anything special

in the Xbox area.

Nintendo didn't even have a booth in this

expo, though they did have some small

gaming stands where you could try some

3DS and Wii U games. The games were quite

good. However they weren't any new

releases.

Game stage, Oculus and more

After the console makers booths I went to the

area surrounding the Game stage. On the

game stage console and game makers

mostly showed demos of their games, some

were interesting, some were not. Demos

weren't the only thing that were held on the

stage, there were also panel discussions.

Three were held in total, one of which I found

interesting, and it was about the Finnish

game industry. There was also a keynote

about the future of the internet held by Mikko

Hyppönen, the director of research at F-

Secure. In the keynote he talked about

different kind of (computer) viruses, how they

have evolved and how to protect ourselves

from them.

Right next to the game stage was a stand

where you could try the Oculus Rift

Development Kit 2. In case you didn't know,

the Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset.

You had to queue a while to try the Rift, but I

think it was worth it, and you could also watch

what was happening on the game stage since

it was right next to the stand. There were two

different demos, both of which I tried.

One of them was a Rollercoaster demo, and the other one was a demo where you controlled a character in a living room. I liked both of them, but prefered the Rollercoaster one. At the expo you could also find a game shop

that sold mostly games you could try at the

expo. There was also some kind of eSports

lounge, which you could enter if you were

above 18 years of age. There was also a

Digistage that mostly had camera demos, but

I didn’t really watch them. There was one

area that I liked which was a small area

where you could play old arcade games.

There was a game called Outrun which is a

game from the eighties which I played.

It was a nice change from the modern games.

The other expos Ski- and Boardexpo mostly consisted of

shops where the shopkeepers sold winter

clothes, skiing and snowboarding gear. There

were also quite many tasters, where you

could taste yogurts and more. There was also

a stage where different kind of keynotes were

held. Ski- and boardexpo were overall quite

similar to last years. However, since I’m not

that interested in skiing or snowboarding I

might not be the most reliable person to trust

here.

At Hifiexpo you could mostly find speakers,

amplifiers, subwoofers etc. There was a lot of

stuff that wasn’t that interesting, but there

were two different kind of audio systems that

could produce 11.1 channel audio. It sounded

incredible!

Conclusion I don’t really know what to think about

Digiexpo. I liked the games you could try and

the program on the stage, but in one way the

whole expo felt quite lame. There wasn’t

really any big thing to anticipate like earlier

years. Last year there was a new console

generation, and the year before that there

were many really big games like Halo 4 you

could try, but this year, there wasn’t really

anything. Once again you could play NHL and

FIFA, just like the years before. Ski- and

boardexpo were also quite similar to earlier

years. There wasn’t really anything that would

have made the expo feel any special. Almost

every year I have visited the expo I have felt

that the last year was better, and this time is

definitely not an exception. Hopefully next

year will be better, although I doubt it.

Jonas Kylliäinen

Electronic Dance Music, the new generation

Weekend festival is an electronic dance music festival in Helsinki. It

has been held for three years. Every year has been different from the

others. But this year was really special. It was held from Friday the

15th of August to the 16th of August, so only two days. There were 30

acts during this event. The festival was held in Kyläsaari in east

Helsinki, it was sold out after three months, about 45 000 visitors. Our

favorites were Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Showtek and Dimitri Vegas &

Like Mike.

Friday

Showtek were the first djs to play during

the festival. Their set was from 16:30 to

17:30. The Dutch dj duo are brothers and

have been involved in the scene for many

years, but they have changed their style

completely from what they made back in

2004. They started out with hardstyle and

went on to progressive and electro house.

They really got the crowd going and gave

a really good start to the festival. After

Showtek’s performance, it was Martin

Garrix’s turn to make the crowd dance.

Martin Garrix set was 18:00 to 19:00. He

is only 18 years old and is the youngest

Dj in the industry. He was ranked 3rd in

DJ MAG Top 100 djs in the world. Last

year he was ranked 33rd. He had an

energetic set with a lot of unreleased

tracks. There was a lot of pyrotechnic and

fireworks during his performance.

Our favourite track that he played was

Tremor, which he released on Spinnin’

records this year with Dimitri Vegas &

Like Mike.

Saturday

The next day was Hardwell’s turn. He is

the world’s best dj according to DJ MAG

top 100, and really deserves the spot

after experiencing his performance. He is

25 years old and has been djing since he

was 14. He was born in Breda, The

Netherlands and started his career in

small clubs in Amsterdam. Later he got

support from big Djs like Tiesto and other

Dutch djs. Since then his name has

gotten more and more famous and now

he is the best in the world. His set during

the festival was really energetic and a bit

emotional with songs that had deep

vocals and euphoric melodies. He only

got to play for an hour just like all djs that

played during this event.

Pros and cons about the event

To summarise the event it is really a must

if you are an EDM (electronic dance

music) lover and love to party. The only

drawbacks were long queues to get food

and drinks. It rained for a couple of hours

during Friday but didn’t ruin the festival at

all. The security was really good so you

didn’t have to worry about any threats or

fights, because there were policemen

almost everywhere outside the festival

venue. So if you get the chance to go to

this event take it and have one of the best

weekends of your life.

Amanda Ohvo & Oscar Grönlund

Martin Garrix performing

Three ways to satisfy your stomach

We have tried three very different kinds of food places in Grankulla. The Lähellä Deli café with its inviting

atmosphere, Moms the only restaurant and bar in town and Subway the international fast-food chain.

LÄHELLÄ DELI ✭✭✭✭ Lähellä deli is a café and lunch restaurant, situated in the center of Grankulla. They serve homemade goodies with all organic ingredients. Their target group is people who want to enjoy good coffee in a cosy atmosphere. The café is suitable for teens as well as families and elderly people. The interior design is mostly made using recyclable material. The café is small and has only six tables; so, you need to time your visits right. If you want to treat yourself a little extra on a bad or rainy day, try the delicious mud cake. We can assure you that it will boost up your mood.

Lähellä Deli menu offers a selection of local and organic treats . The best seller is probably a gluten-free mud cake. It is simply delicious. The mud cake is perfectly soggy in the middle and has a crispy edge. With the mud cake try the silky smooth latté. The lunch menu consists of different salads, soups and pies. They offer a “special of the day” for a special price. You can also find a small amount of local organic products; such as, eggs, flour and tea.

Big assortment of coffee, tea, bread, cakes

and other goodies

Overall Lähellä Deli is very expensive.

You pay for the quality and the organic

ingredients. The mudcake and the latté

combined cost 7.40 €, which makes you

think twice before buying. The service is

very good. It is fast and friendly. They

usually hire younger students to get work

experience, which we find very helpful

when considering future employment.

We interviewed a local middle-aged

woman visiting Lähellä Deli and asked

what she thought about the only café in

Grankulla. This is what she said about the

café: “The café has a very warm and

inviting atmosphere. It is like a second

living room where you can do your

homework, or organise a meeting with a

client. The service is friendly and

personal. The café is family owned, which

I’m glad to support. The food is mostly

great and the best part is that it is

homemade and organic. I like the idea of

selling organic products of different kinds,

even though I don’t buy them. Also the

recipe books and the magazines that you

can read while you enjoy your meal is a

very pleasant bonus.

At the end of a hard week, the cheese cake

is well earned.

I leave Lähellä Deli every time with a big

smile on my face. If I could change

anything I would extend the café so that

you don’t have to compete for seating.

The other thing that bothers me is the

price. I would gladly come more often, but

it is the price that holds me back.”

Lähellä Deli is a place for those who want

to take an hour off just to relax and enjoy

good food. It’s a place where you feel

warm and welcomed. The best part is that

you can meet up with a friend or just go

alone to organize your head. This is a

place like no other else in Grankulla.

Perfectly

soggy in the

middle with a

crispy edge

and the silky

smooth latté.

Organic and local

products as a gift or

as a treat.

They serve food in everyones taste.

MOMS ✭✭✭

Moms is situated in Grankulla downtown.

This is the one and only restaurant and

bar in town. This is a place for everybody

to enjoy good food in great company. This

is also the place to be when sports events

like football or hockey is on TV. Here you

can eat everything from hamburgers and

desserts to steak and seafood. When you

are too tired to cook dinner after work,

restaurant food is just a call and a drive

away.

The very famous best seller in Moms is

the “Grani burger”. It is a huge burger with

goat cheese, fresh lettuce and tomato

and an honestly good steak. As a side

dish you get fries that you actually won’t

need. To drink with the burger you can

take a soda-drink or try some of the beers

from the large selection that Moms offers.

The menu is large and offers restaurant

food to bar snacks. You can have a family

dinner, where there is something for

everyone’s taste. You will find pastas and

risottos, seafood and salmon soup,

steaks and hamburgers and of course a

menu for children. The pricing is

affordable. You can eat lunch for a good

price or try some of the more difficult

dishes for a higher price.

Tables, chairs and a bar, nothing special.

The interior design in Moms is average. It

looks like a restaurant as well as feels like

one. They have the right amount of tables

so that they on a Friday evening get a full

house. The interior is divided into two,

one side with tables for a normal family

restaurant and an other section with a TV,

couches and a bar type of atmosphere.

The restaurant is welcoming and you

don’t need to think about what you are

wearing. The service at Moms is quite

slow but very friendly. They have a staff

of different ages, which is suitable for a

variety of customers.

Looks clean, is neat.

We interviewed a middle-aged sports-

and beer freak man that really enjoys his

time at Moms. This is what he said about

Moms: “I think it is great to have a family

restaurant in town. I like it when you first

can dine with you family and then stay

with your friends and watch football. A

great plus is the large beer selection, this

is my biggest reason why I think Moms is

such a fun dinner place to visit. A great

plus is that you can take restaurant food

as take away. I find it very luxurious. I

would still improve the menu to be more

varied. Then I would wish for longer

outdoor seating in the summer with

heating lamps.”

Moms is as the name says; marvelous,

outgoing, magnificent, special. This

restaurant and bar is “one of a kind” and

fulfills everyone's expectations both

visually and with the food. It is the only

“real” restaurant and bar in Grankulla that

tempt locals and visitors. It is a place that

you can go to whenever you like and

always feel welcomed.

On special days they serve a buffét table

stuffed with goodies.

SUBWAY ✭✭

Subway is situated in a good place, in the

centre of Grankulla. If you are in a hurry

and you don’t have the time to make a

“real” meal at home this is a good place

to go to. It is also suitable for students

who study nearby as well as to people

who work in the centre of Grankulla. The

students often go here on their lunch

break instead of eating in the school

canteen. Subway offers a lots of different

kinds of sandwiches in different kinds of

sizes.

Subway is a typical fast food place that

has, as I said, different kinds of

sandwiches. Subway has a fairly varied

menu where new sandwiches are offered

every now and then. You can choose

between a 15 cm long or a 30cm long

sandwich combined with a drink,

cookie/chips or neither of it. The menu is

pretty wide because you can choose

between, meat, chicken, ham and

vegetarian. You can also eat a salad or a

flatbread at Subway. There are different

kinds of bread to choose between, you

can either go for an unhealthy style or for

the more healthy style if you want. There

is, for example, the whole grain or white

bread that you can choose.

The prices are quite suitable for this kind of food, although it would be nice to have a little lower price on the sandwiches, because compared to other fast food chains the prices are quite high here. But then again Subway has a special offer of one type of sandwich every day. For example on Mondays they have the grilled chicken for only 3.90 euros, which is a very good price. The interior is not that fancy or cozy compared to a real restaurant or café, which means that if you want to go with your family for a cozy dinner, this might not be the proper place to go to. The interior is plain with normal tables and chairs. The atmosphere isn’t that noisy that you think it would be but then again it is not that tempting that it could be. A thing that is missing at Subway is the opportunity to sit outside in the spring or summer enjoying your sandwich or salad.

The service is quite normal as it is at a fastfood restaurant. They are not that unpleasant but the service could be better than what it is now. More politeness and better spirit at Subway would lead to more customers and better reviews.

The specialities during the week

Every Subway looks like this

inside, plain and functional.

We have interviewed a student from

Gymnasiet Grankulla samskola that

often chooses to go for his lunch break

to Subway. His opinion of the place was

that “you get the food pretty fast and

have just the time to eat before the

lunch break ends. The sandwiches are

good, not great , but okay compared to

the prices.”

In conclusion, in Grankulla there are many different kinds of food places for everyone both for adolescents, adults and elderly people. We came to the conclusion that Lähellä Deli is the one that we highly recommend for everyone that has the opportunity to go there.

Sara Wilhelmsson & Jessica Rautelin

Sports

Jokerit - Hockey for everyone

Hockey is the biggest sport in Finland and it is

taken very seriously. It’s said that in Finland

we are crazy about hockey and it’s our

nation’s most beloved sport. Helsingin Jokerit

is the biggest ice-hockey club in Finland, It

was founded in 1967 and is one of the oldest

hockey teams in Finland. Their representative

team recently moved to the Russian league

(KHL - Kontinental Hockey League) which is

the second largest ice-hockey league in the

world. They have been very successful there

and are ranked third. Jokerit is the first

Finnish hockey team playing in the KHL.

Their home stadium is the Hartwall Arena

which is located in Pasila (a part of Helsinki).

The Jokerit organisation is run by: the

chairman of the board Harry Harkimo, the

managing director Jukka Kohonen and the

general Manager Jari Kurri. Together they

keep the organisation running and try to

improve youth activity because it’s the new

generations that form the club.

Jokerit juniors in action

Youth activities

Jokerit put a lot of money in youth activities

each year. Their goal is to provide everyone

who wants to play hockey a chance. They

divide youth groups into different levels

depending on how seriously the youngster

wants to take the sport. They have very

competitive teams and some less competitive

for all ages so it is easy to find a team that

suits you. Altho Jokerit put a lot money and

effort into youth activity it’s still hard for some

people to play the sport due to the high

expenses that the sport comes with.

Charity work

Jokerit arranges different charity events and a

share of their winnings go straight to charity

foundations such as “Finnish Flash”. The

Jokerit- SKA charity game was a prime

example of how much the organisation wants

to help charity. They donated all the winnings

from the game to charity.

The Jokerit club is extremely important to the

Finnish hockey culture and it’s the driving

hockey club that keeps a high standard in

Finnish hockey and gives a chance to

everyone to play the sport we all love and

care about. To them it’s not all about the

profit. It’s about giving everyone a chance to

play the game and having fun doing it.

Thomas Ahlroth & Casper Törmä

Sporting possibilities in Grankulla

Most activities in Grankulla are organised

by Grankulla IFK (GrIFK) and it is the

biggest association in sports in Grankulla.

GrIFK was founded in 1925 and is today

active in football, ice hockey, floorball,

handball, tennis, swimming and alpine

skiing.

Grankulla has many different sports

facilities and the town council has been

active in sponsoring sports. There are two

artificial football turfs, an ice hockey hall,

a ski slope, many tennis courts, an indoor

swimming pool and numerous handball

courts, and a few floorball courts. There is

also an outdoor running track in the

woods, one lap is 5,2 kilometers. In the

winter the outdoor track is used as a

cross country skiing track. Many of the

teams often go there for warming up

before their trainings start, or just simply

to run and get a better condition. The

track is available to everybody, not only to

those who train one of the many sports

that Grankulla has to offer.

Jonathan Berg & Mathias Kaarnimo

GrIFK has many juniors and youngsters

in their association. This is because they

prioritize and encourage children to start

playing any kind of sport at a young age.

The association has gained many new

members and is still today growing.

Thanks to this GrIFK has been able to

provide new training possibilities to

everyone. They provide training

possibilities to older people as well.

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