Himmeli and Taikurinhattu, designed by Raili and Reima Pietilä, are ending up as protected areas in Pori

The former nursing home and daycare located in Pori were designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä. The Ely Center has started preparing the protection order.

Himmel's service house in Pori.
The Himmel building is going to be protected.

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The library is increasingly open from early in the morning until late at night, but the service is not always available – the number of independent libraries is increasing

The people of Hämeenlinna, who sought to learn from Denmark, were the first to get excited about self-service libraries in Finland. Now the main library in Hämeenlinna is already open on its own.

In the left foreground, new fiction on display in the library on a frame-like metal shelf, with bookshelves and a full-wall window in the background.
Self-service time increases the accessibility of libraries. In addition to borrowers, self-employment time is used by students, remote workers, magazine readers and computer users, among others.

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500 liters of urea spilled onto the yard of Posti’s terminal in Lahti – the accident did not threaten the environment

Urea leaked onto the ground when the container containing it was damaged while being moved.

Graphics intended for close-ups

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The National Youth Theater takes the audience to the streets of Helsinki among drug addicts and dykes – the shows are accompanied by a security guard

GÄNG – a guided city tour is a recent production of the National Youth Theatre, which gives the form of a traditional theater performance a shout.

GÄNG performance.
GÄNG takes place around Helsinki Central Station.

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Lappeenranta Airport is hoping for funding from the Eastern Finland support package – negotiations are also taking place with large accommodation operators

Lappeenranta Airport has applied for a total of one million euros from the Eastern Finland support package for two years. It would partially replace the state support that did not come this year.

RyanAir plane at Lappeenranta airport
Ryanair currently flies scheduled flights between Lappeenranta and Bergamo, Italy. Stock photo.

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Love, betrayal and inequality – in the musical Suruttomat, a woman’s mark is still a man’s

Jyväskylä City Theatre’s autumn main work, the musical Suruttomat, takes the audience to the dark Finland of the late 19th century. The husband controlled the wife’s property, minorities were discriminated against, and drinking was more of a virtue than an embarrassing vice.

Four years after its publication, the play The Worker’s Wife influenced legislation improving equality.

The director of the Suruttomat musical, Jukka Keinonen.
Jukka Keinonen also directed Jyväskylä City Theatre’s previous successful musical The Addams Family.

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The Marjatta and Eino Koll foundation made a large donation to the University of Helsinki – the Lahti campus also receives a share

The donation funds research related to wood construction.

Exterior view of the LUT University Lahti campus building.
The Lahti University Campus is one of the units that participate in a research project related to wood construction. Stock photo.

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Muhkurainen Aleksanterinkatu needs renovation in the center of Lahti – the opening will be postponed until at least next summer

In Aleksanterinkatu, which was renovated six years ago, there are depressions in the core area that will need to be leveled in the future. The method of implementation of the renovation depends on future traffic arrangements.

A cobbled street that continues to the horizon.  A car can be seen in the distance, concrete sheep-shaped roadblocks on the side of the street.
The cobblestones of Aleksanterinkatu will have to be taken down again when the street, which has sunk into potholes in some places, is leveled.

Lahti’s Aleksanterinkatua will start to be renovated in a couple of years at the earliest. Aleksanterinkattu has depressions in the core, which are caused by deficiencies in the substructure.

The most depressions are between Vesijärvenkatu and Rauhankatu.

The city’s goal is to prepare for next year the alternatives of solutions with which the renovation could be carried out. The plans are tied to future decisions about the traffic arrangements in the entire city center.

– In practice, we talk about whether Aleksi has public transport, and what other forms of movement there are, Honkanen states.

There are no estimates yet on the possible costs of the renovation. According to Honkanen, planning the renovation later can be an advantage, because construction costs are now high.

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