Some publicity

An article about our project was published in Västra Nyland newspaper in 16.4.2010. It is actually a relatively big article, one whole page. That's good. It is written well and the pictures are good too (we look good ;) Västra Nyland is probably the biggest newspaper in the area.

One of my statements might be misunderstood, the first statement in the article. The road was build and that is when the flooding channel was closed (in Åminnefors). Before that the fishes were able to rise to the river trough the flooding channel. So in a way it is only the road that is blocking the fishes from coming to the river. However if you go to the dam, there are no signs of the old flooding channel anymore, so it might sound kind of strange that the road is closing the river. Of course the dam is actually closing it but the migrating fishes could not rise to river anymore after the road was built over the flooding channel.

Anyway, we have already succeeded in some goals of our project: we got some publicity for the issue. Anyway, in two weeks we will offer the final article to the local newspapers. The text part of the final report is almost ready. I am very excited to see what kind of pictures have Lea and Meiko managed to do, the visual plan is the most important part of the plan.

Tomorrow we are having a group meeting. I scanned and attached the article (I hope it's not illegal to do that).

- Mika