Hööpakka

Hööpaka village has 60 permanent residents. Some of the houses are dairy farms and grain farms. People also go to work in environmental municipalities from the village. A school ride takes children to Topparla elementary school and older students to Ylistaro school center. The nearest shops are in urban areas. The village borders the cities of Kauhava and Lapua, and in the village there is Rajaristi, i.e. the place where the borders of the cities of Seinäjoki, Kauhava and Lapua cross. The distance to the towns of Ylistaro and Ylihärmä and the city of Lapua is about 18 km, to Seinäjoki 35 km.

Services

The library van goes once a week and the Service Taxi goes to the center of Ylistaro on Thursdays. Maamiesseura owns and rents machines (roller, klap machine, stone crusher). The women's department has well-equipped holding equipment available for rent. In addition, the village also offers circular sawing, blasting, massaging, accounting office services, and earthmoving, construction, machining, and repair shop companies.

Shared spaces and hobby opportunities

Hööpaka's countrymen's club and the women's section of the countrymen's club operate in the village. These societies also function as village committees, because due to the small size of the village, it does not make sense to establish a separate village association. Events and meetings are usually organized in homes and are actively participated in. The deer hunters of Höopaka hunt under the Ylistaro hunting club. They have built a hunting cabin, Vasala, which the villagers can also use as a meeting place. The hunting club also belongs to voluntary rescue service activities.

Village events

Meetings of the local community, various trips, cookouts, summer parties and parties. All events are actively participated in. In particular, the kinker tradition has been preserved.

Construction sites

There are empty houses and plots of land for those who are interested.

The strengths of the village

Abundant and clean nature and good berry growing and hunting grounds offer the best opportunities for movement in nature. There is community in the village. The neighbor is taken care of and helped as needed. The municipal centers and services of Ylistaro, Lapua, Kauhava and Seinäjoki are also fairly close. Since the village is located a little out of the way, we are used to surviving on our own. The strength of the village is also that those who live here now also intend to stay here.

Special features

The settlement of the village started after the Great Partition in the 1770s. The founding inhabitants Högbacka gave the village its name, which is now spelled Hööpakka.

The most important areas for development

The most important object of development in the village is road conditions. The brake on the village's development is that at least a third of the year is behind really bad road connections. Hööpakantie was largely repaired in 2007. It is nice that the long-vacant school has a new owner. 

Avoidable threats

The lifeblood of the village is that agriculture remains profitable. If agriculture ends, and no successors are found for the farms, the village will also disappear.

Updated on 10/10/2022