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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, Petre 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 National 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 month-ticket,
that 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
National 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
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 sortiment 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
with different ages, which is suitable for a
variety 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 sortiment, 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
varying. Then I would wish for longer
outdoor seating in the summer with
heating lamps.”
Moms, 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 fairly a variable
menu where new sandwiches comes to
the market 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
more for the healthy 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, it would be nice to have a little lower price on the sandwiches, because comparing to other fast food chains the prices are quite high here. But then again Subway has every day a special offer off one type of sandwich. 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 cosy compared to a real restaurant or café, which means that if you want to go with your family for a cosy 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 held 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 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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