Lahti’s Kortteliliga has kept the townspeople moving for more than fifty years. The activity that started as a competition between groups of friends plays a big role as a builder of friendships and community.
CEO Jarmo \”Jake\” Ropponen at his desk. In 53 years, Lahti’s Kortteliliga has become a remarkable community. It has nearly 3,500 members aged 15-80. …
Matti Nykänen’s achievements are engraved on the skis of the piece. One of the achievements is marked as \”Olympic Silver Suurmäki Sarajevo 1984\ although Nykänen was an Olympic champion on the Sarajevo Suurmäki. vaikka Nykänen oli Sarajevon suurmäessä olympiavoittaja.
The face of young Matti Nykänen is engraved on the slab of the monument’s base. …
The hot August took away the mushrooms, but suitable rains can still bring them back.
– I’ve been walking here for seven years, and I’ve never seen a forest so empty of mushrooms at the turn of August and September, says Korhonen.
The past summer and early autumn have been quite special when it comes to mushrooms. At the end of July, mushroom baskets were filled with delicious chanterelles in different parts of Finland.
The hot period in August stopped the mushroom season almost completely.
– There is still hope. When the water comes, the mushrooms still rise. Not in a day or two, but in a week from the rains, Jarkko Korhonen reminds.
September is the best mushroom month in southern and central Finland.
– Measured in milliliters, the rain has been quite reasonable in recent days. I think the mycelium is starting to flow and produce a crop. I just have to hope that the night frosts don’t come too early.
Jarkko Korhonen is a Finnish mushroom expert and writer. …
The Ministry of Finance proposes that welfare regions with university hospitals should receive additional funding. Funding would inoculate other areas.
University hospitals’ higher costs come from, among other things, research activities. In the archive image, Kuopio University Hospital. …
Musician Silu Seppälä accidentally became an actor on the big screen. A career in films started at the top. Now he is starring in the latest film The Mindsaver.
Silu Seppälä, who is turning 68, lives in Lappeenranta today and does not long to return to Helsinki. …
Hanoi Rocks will perform at Michael Monroe’s birthday party in September.
The original line-up of Hanoi Rocks, one of Finland’s most significant rock bands of all time, will perform together for the first time in over 40 years.
According to the band’s frontman, singer Michael Monroe, it’s not an actual Hanoi Rocks re-union, but the band is making a comeback as the culmination of Monroe’s 60th anniversary concert. The original Hanoi Rocks line-up will take the stage at the end of the concert.