Frami F ready

Happy new year! This is the entrance of the new extension of the local technology center, Frami. The newest building is called Frami F. People will study business there. As you can see the surface is extraordinary. I'll take some "whole building" shots later.

Christmas trees yet available

Some people have a tradition of stealing their christmas trees from somebody's forrest. Well that's not legal. Here you can by one. I guess it will cost about 30 to 40 euros to get one. I'm not really sure, cause we are privileged to get our christmas tree legally from a relative's forest.

Santa's train

This train took a group of people to Koskenkorva. Twice today. It is the Santa's train. You can see him stepping out of the train. Actually this is a train maintained by the Haapamäki Museum Locomotive Association. This engine is called "Pikku-Jumbo", "Little Jumbo" and it was built in 1947 by Tampella. Below you can see it leaving he station.

White trees

 Cold weather tends to make the birches look all white. It's been -20 degrees celsius few days and about -10 when I took this photo. I quess you could say it's winter now.

Christmas tree of Seinäjoki

This is the official christmas tree of Seinäjoki. Behind it you can see the tower of Lakeuden Risti church.

Independent Finland 95 years

95 years ago, on 6 December 1917 the Parliament of Finland adopted the Declaration of Independence. We have a national holiday today. Finland Independence Day.

Itikka deleting finished

As I wrote before the company which was demolishing the old meat factory Itikka was called Delete. Well now the deleting is finished. Below you can see the "before" photo. Not exactly from the same spot, but I believe you will get the idea. I don't know if they will spare that much of the chimney. We'll see.

This is the same site from a different point of view. You can see the tree behind the sign on the right in the photo below.

The local transport regenerating

The operator of the local transport of Seinäjoki is changing in the new year. It has been operated by Veolia and will now be operated by Härmän liikenne. Veolia is a bigger company, operating in other towns and cities too. Härmän liikenne instead is a local company from Härmä, not far from Seinäjoki.

The local transport here hasn't really developed in the last 20 years. This change would maybe give a possibility for that.  However there was some kind of mixup in the competition and everything can still go back the way it was. That would mean Veolia would continue.

Härmän liikenne branded their buses as "Komia liikenne" (Komia transport). "Komia" is a finnish dialectual word for handsome and it is used in the marketing of Seinäjoki area.

Big Kicksled

This is a kicksled for a giant.

Wikipedia says: The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners which extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ("sparke" or "sparka" in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back. "Kicksled" is a direct translation of the Finnish word "potkukelkka". Some other possible translations are "kicker" and "chair-sled".
 
If you have ever used one of these(smaller ones) it might have been from Seinäjoki. The finnish manufacturer of kick sleds,  Esla is located in the consolidated area of Seinäjoki.

Dark, Dark, Wet, Wet

November has been very wet and dark. Not very inspiring for taking photoes. Sorry about that. The Christmas season has been opened. Last sunday we saw some fireworks. These are from last year. Not much else is going on.

Graffiti wall

A wall with graffitis. Inside is the skating hall Stache 1.

Funny hats on the market

Someone was selling these funny hats on the annual "Major market" held in the Seinäjoki Areena hall. This poor quality photo was taken with my HTC phone.

Törnävä church in the evening

This is the church of Törnävä in Seinäjoki. I have two previous photos of it from last year.

All Saint's day 2012

It's again time for all saint's day. "Pyhäinpäivä" in finnish. The day which people dedicate to remembering their deceased loved ones. These photos are from the Seinäjoki grave yard. A lot of candles.

This statue stands next to the war graves.

Again from Itikka factory

As you can see this was taken before the snow came. This is the demolition site of the Itikka meat factory. I was kind of hoping they would bring down the chimney all at once (time informed in advance). However, if looked closely it can be seen that piece of it is already missing. Seems that they are bringin it slowly down piece by piece.