ESPOO MAGAZINE 3/2020

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Picks Almost 90 per cent of Espoo residents live less than 30 minutes away by public transport from the urban centre that is the quickest to reach from their home. Help with gamblingrelated problems ACCORDING to a survey carried out by the national Yhteispelillä! project this spring, 57 per cent of Espoo residents gamble weekly. Of the respondents, 30 per cent said they or a loved one have a gambling problem. Help with gambling problems is available from the city’s mental health and substance abuse services. Help is also available from the national Peluuri helpline and online services and from the Tiltti information and support centre located at Peliklinikka in Helsinki. Starting this autumn, Espoo residents will also be able to seek outpatient care at Peliklinikka. Peer support is offered in Espoo by Nimettömät Pelurit – Gamblers Anonymous (GA) and Sosped Foundation’s Pelirajat’on peer group. Appointments and advice at the City of Espoo mental health and substance abuse services, Mon-Fri 8:00−16:00, tel. 09 816 31300. espoo.fi/mielenterveys Bees at Glims Farmstead Museum AFTER learning about the declining number of pollinators in Finland, the Glims Farmstead Museum began a collaborative experiment with a company called Stanin Hani. Now the museum has its own pollinators buzzing around. The summer’s first batch of Glims Farmstead’s own honey yielded 16 kilograms of this golden delicacy, which will be packed into 50 honey jars, each containing 300 grams. In future, you will be able to buy this honey from the Glims Farmstead Museum’s shop and the Pentala Archipelago Museum. At the Glims Farmstead Museum, we plan to focus on safeguarding biodiversity in nature also by other means. We will attract wild pollinators to the area by leaving piles of straw around for them to nest in, allowing dandelions to grow in the spring and protecting meadows in collaboration with the Espoo Environment Department. We have given up using any artificial fertilisers in the museum garden and have replaced them with composted chicken and sheep manure, both of which are sourced from the museum area. 6 A magazine for Espoo residents Help with money issues ARE your income and expenses out of balance? Are you falling behind with your rent? Do you find it difficult to repay your consumer credit? If you are concerned about your financial situation or money management, the Financial Clinic will help you! Our experts will give you advice on how to start solving your situation. The Financial Clinic will be open to Espoo residents every Friday from 10:00 to 14:00. To get advice, you can call the Financial Clinic, tel. 040 639 3944, or visit its office in Espoon keskus, Terveyskuja 2 C. As the service is anonymous, you will not be asked for any personal information. Espoo-based Stan Jas, beekeeper and owner of the company Stanin Hani, has brought a great deal of know-how about bee-keeping to Espoo from his home country, the Czech Republic. Telephone services at health centres to be made more efficient HEALTH centres’ telephone services have been very busy in August, and people have had to wait a long time for a call-back. Similarly, the HUSLAB coronavirus testing sites have been very busy. The good news is that there is light at the end of the tunnel. In mid-August, phone calls about the coronavirus shortened by half after the preparation of sampling referrals was made quicker. The number of telephone service staff has been increased, and we are looking into the possibility of using outsourced services in order to clear the backlog of calls. By the beginning of September, we will have electronic channels at our disposal, allowing residents access to coronavirus tests without a phone call. The nationwide smart phone app Koronavilkku will also be launched in September. It will make it quicker for healthcare professionals to reach people exposed to the virus and to break chains of infection. We want to thank all Espoo residents for your patience! Espoo’s coronavirus helpline, tel. 09 816 34600 Mon–Fri at 7:00–18:00 Medical Helpline in the evenings and on weekends, tel. 116 117 Check updates: espoo.fi/ koronavirus
At the end of May, there were 22,497 unemployed people in Espoo, of whom 9,722 had been laid off. Nearly 80 self-build plots for detached houses via plot applications Wilhelmina Paananen Detached houses in Kurttila. Espoo is a trailblazer in the acquisition of schools and day-care centres THIS autumn, the city will organise a self-build plot application round for Espoo residents. This year there will be more plots available than in previous years – a total of 78. The majority of the self-build plots are located in the Kurttila residential area for small family homes, close to the sea and services in Saunalahti. The application round will include 51 plots in Kurttila. The majority of them are located in maritime Kallvik. A large number of new buildings are planned for Kurttila where streets are currently being built. 23 of the plots are close to nature in Henttaa, next to the services of Suurpelto. The self-build plots available via application also include three in the popular area of Lintuvaara and one in the new residential area of Perusmäki in northern Espoo. The plots range between 485 and 1,250 square metres in size, and their permitted building volume is approximately 120–260 floor square metres. Applicants can choose whether they prefer to rent a plot or buy it. More detailed information about schedule of the plot application round will be provided in August on the City of Espoo’s website. The application is based on a draw, and precedence will be given to residents of Espoo. THE City of Espoo has chosen project company Kumppanuuskoulut Oy, formed by YIT and Meridiam Investments II, to take charge of the design, construction, financing and 20 years of maintenance of eight schools and daycare centres in the city. The City of Espoo’s new method of acquiring schools and day-care centres as a comprehensive service has attracted interest worldwide because the contract of service involved makes it possible to apply the PPP model (Public Private Partnership) to building projects. In this model, the private project company as the service provider is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the buildings, freeing the city’s valuable resources from planning individual sites to other activities. The majority of the risks have been transferred to the service provider, which means that the model encourages the provider to keep to the schedule and create cost-effective solutions. At the end of the agreement period, the buildings will be returned to the city in good condition. The three building projects to be carried out first are the Pohjos-Tapiolan koulu secondary school, the Perkkaan koulu joint comprehensive school and youth centre, and the Nauriskasken koulu primary school. The aim is to complete all three schools in 2022. Other projects under the same model will be built in 2021–23 and include the Perkkaa day-care centre, Nöykkiönniitty day-care centre, the Kilon koulu primary school and day-care centre and the primary school unit of of Kuitinmäen koulu. They will provide facilities for almost 4,000 children. The PPP model is part of the Koulut Kuntoon programme, which aims to ensure healthy and safe premises for schools and day-care centres. Put your mark on the future Espoo Story THE preparation of the Espoo Story, i.e. the city’s strategy, for the coming City Council term 2021–25 begins in August. We are collecting residents’ views and wishes for the city’s future as the basis for elected bodies’ work. “It’s important for us that the voices of Espoo residents can be heard in the Espoo Story, which is why we invite everyone to participate in its preparation,” says the city’s Strategy Director Jorma Valve. “The Espoo Story has been our shared signpost in developing our city for two council terms already. Our strategy in the form of a story has been easy to communicate, and people have committed admirably to its implementation,” Valve explains. Now is the time for you too to think about the kind of Espoo you want to live in in the future and join us in making it a reality. You can give your answers to My Espoo surveys on our website at espoo.fi. ” It’s important for us that the voices of Espoo residents can be heard in the Espoo Story. 7
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