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What's under The Ice Tracks

In spring-winter, activities on the ice are geared towards pleasure. Ice fishing competitions can be whatever you want them to be. Basking in the sun, having a picnic, snow-mobiling and some fishing are activities on the playground made of ice. This picture was taken last year on Lake Hornavan.

In the lakes around Arjeplog quite a few different fish swim around in the clear and clean waters.
The fish caught here are usually of very high quality and many record-sized fish are registered in Arjeplog. Most people in Arjeplog enjoy some kind of fishing.

Read the whole article and see colour photos of the fish

Friday March 14, 2008. Sunrise: 6.10 Sunset: 17.45
Length of day: 11 hours 35 minutes.

Anna Makes Tracks

Anna Sundström is one of the few women who make test tracks. Her sister Åse was a pioneer in this field.

Anna Sundström, 21, thinks that being a woman in a male-dominated environment is an advantage. She works in the Cartest family business and is always ready to do whatever is needed.

Her normal job involves making ice tracks for Mobis/Hyundai, Knorr-Bremse and Delphi and she says,
“I drive the snow blowers, tractors and trucks in order to make the tracks”.
While most people are still sleeping Anna and the Cartest staff wake up early in order to prepare the test tracks. They drive a total of 680 kms while clearing the snow from all their tracks.
Weather permitting, she goes to the office of her father, Alf, to give him a hand with all the paperwork.
Her mother, Bente, is responsible for keeping the offices and hotel clean and Anna is often by her side. She says, proudly, that they are a very tight-knit family and hardly fight, although they often discuss how things should be done.
Anna’s older sister, Åse, gave birth to her and Gerd’s third daughter this week which makes Cartest very female-dominated. Alf and Bente now have 2 daughters and three grand-daughters.
Anna Sundström is often asked if she has any problems working in a male-dominated world and she answers by saying “Not at all, quite the contrary. I think I play a role in reducing the macho atmosphere around here”.

• Thanks to Tabcab Taxi and Bus service in Arvidsjaur, The Arjeplog Times was delivered every Friday morning to our partners in Arvidsjaur.

• The plans to build a hotel with 50 rooms at Skeppsudden are very close to realization. Petter and Ann-Christine Sundström (North Life) and Torbjörn Holmlund have almost all the permits required to start building the hotel near the harbour in Arjeplog.

• Silverhatten AB has bought a hotel on Galtispuoda mountain. The luxury hotel was built close to the ski lift on Galtis by a Norweigan company but they went bankrupt before the hotel was completed. This week, Jan Edvardsson, Silverhatten bought the hotel for six million kronor.

• A car tester told us that in Belgium if you kill an animal with your car you can keep it.
However, this is not the case here. If you hit a reindeer, it belongs to the owner and every reindeer belongs to someone.
If you hit a moose, it belongs to the people with hunting rights in the area of the accident.
If you hit a reindeer or a moose you must report it to the police. Make sure you know the exact location and if the animal is still alive and hurt, you must kill it or get help from a local to kill the animal, if you cannot do it yourself.

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New Honorary Citizens

citizens who received their awards last Saturday at a ceremony at the Silver Museum.
They are Heinz Krusche from BMW and Dr Eduard Gerum from Knorr Bremse.
They both said that they really like Arjeplog and were very touched to be appointed honorary citizens.
Wolf Dieter Jonner was the first person to become an honorary citizen of Arjeplog. He is also known as the father of ABS and has now retired from Bosch.
He sent us the following mail: “As the first honorary citizen of Arjeplog I welcome the newly honoured people.
I appreciate that you have recommended these people for their services which they have rendered to Arjeplog.
I’m still reading the Arjeplog Times to stay informed about Arjeplog.”

Dietmar Hackner, Günther Blaha and Klas Bohler were unable to attend and will hopefully receive their honorary citizenships next March.

Dr Eduard Gerum, Knorr Bremse (left) and Heinz Krusche (BMW) at the ceremony where they were appointed honorary citizens of Arjeplog.

Snow-storm Stopped Market

The winter market in Arjeplog came to an abrupt stop as people woke up on Sunday to a full snow-storm. Most of the those who had market stands peeped out of their caravans and decided there and then to pack up and leave.
They left complaining about how bad the market in Arjeplog had been this winter. They also left lots of car testers and locals with money burning holes in their pockets.
Vild-Hasse, a sausage dealer, who is famous in the whole country for making up poetic verses while selling his moose sausages, said,
“I like Arjeplog because here the pavements are white and the dogs and the people are nice.”

Vild-Hasse, poetic sausage dealer did not mind the snow in Arjeplog.

Nokian Tyre Event

The Nokian Tyres Event was cancelled due to the bad weather. Almost 30 people had signed up to test drive tyres made for Nordic and European conditions.
However, the visibility on the lake was zero and the wind kept blowing snow onto the tracks.
“We will organize two or three events next season”, promised the Nokian representatives.