Category: News

Children and the Environment for Young People – a Red Cross course

<img height="“1″" width="“1″" style="“display:none“" src="“https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=344679792675614&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1″" /> The Children and the Environment course with the Red Cross in Hafnarfjörður will be held on 7, 8, 9 and 14 May 2019, subject to sufficient participation. The course is intended for young people born in 2007 or earlier (aged 12 and over).  Training will take place at the Red Cross premises in Hafnarfjörður and Garðabær at […]

LED street lighting

The City of Hafnarfjörður invites tenders for Phase 1 of the street lighting LED retrofit. It is planned to replace 250 lamps in 2019, and the City of Hafnarfjörður invites tenders for these lamps. Tenders will be opened at the Environmental and Planning Services on 2 May 2019 at 10:00. Requests for tender documents should be sent to ishmael@hafnarfjordur.is

CLEAN UP HAFNARFJÖRÐ – on Snapchat and Instagram

Over the coming weeks, Gunnella Hólmarsdóttir will be running the HREINSUM HAFNARFJÖRÐ Snapchat and Instagram accounts.  There she shares practical tips and methods for, among other things, sorting household waste and litter-picking in the local area, as well as providing other advice. Gunnella Hólmarsdóttir is a mother of two from the Kinnunum area who, like many others, wonders about it every day […]

On- and off-slips closed on Thursday, 11th April.

The slip roads between the Reykjanesbraut and Strandgata in Hafnarfjörður will be closed on Thursday, 11 April. The area is likely to remain closed all day and possibly into the morning of Friday, 12 April.  The slip roads are being cut open to lay a hot water pipe. You can use the new flyover at Hellnahraun, Hvaleyrarhverfi and […]

Let's clean up Hafnarfjörður – let's clean up our local environment

From 11 April to 20 May, clean-up days will be held in Hafnarfjörður under the slogan CLEAN UP HAFNARFJÖRÐ. Residents of all neighbourhoods in Hafnarfjörður are encouraged to take an active part in cleaning up Hafnarfjörður. A street or neighbourhood clean-up day offers a fun social gathering. Requests for bags to be collected after neighbourhood clean-up should be sent to hafnarfjordur@hafnarfjordur.is – there are already some […]

Garden waste collected

From 11 April to 20 May, clean-up days are taking place in Hafnarfjörður under the slogan 'CLEAN UP HAFNARFJÖRÐUR'. Residents in all neighbourhoods of Hafnarfjörður are encouraged to take an active part in the clean-up, and it is an ideal opportunity while the clean-up days are underway to get to work in the garden, pruning bushes and flower beds. Special attention is drawn to the fact that […]

Spring cleaning starts tomorrow!

Sweeping of streets, pavements and footpaths in Hafnarfjörður begins tomorrow, Tuesday 9th April. Last year, sweeping began around the same time, but the weather has started to get quite good for spring work. The town is divided into 15 districts and these are signposted the day before sweeping with notice of the planned operation. At the same time, the central islands will be washed. […]

Health promotion for disabled people – a grant from the Public Health Fund

The short-stay unit Hnotubergi recently received a grant from the Public Health Fund for the project: Health Promotion for Disabled People. There is great ambition and enthusiasm to improve the public health of people with disabilities, and this year the focus will be on encouraging service users to take up exercise and to try an activity or leisure pursuit they have not tried before. The aim […]

The youth councils of Sveio and Hafnarfjörður meet

Eighteen young people from Sveio in Hordaland, Norway, came to visit Hafnarfjörður recently, accompanied by a distinguished entourage. The Youth Council from Sveio in Hordaland, Norway, contacted the Hafnarfjörður Youth Council last year and led the delegation, along with the mayor of Sveio, a small community of 3,600 people, on a visit to Hafnarfjörður from 28th to 31st March. The purpose of the trip was to look at […]

The Great Reading Competition is growing and thriving – 29 finals this spring

The final of the Grand Reading Competition in Hafnarfjörður was held at Hafnarborg yesterday for the 23rd time. All of Hafnarfjörður's primary schools send representatives to the competition, two from each school, and this year there were therefore 14 contestants in total. At the event, the pupils performed an extract from a work of fiction and a poem, and at the end, the judging panel selected the three best readers and awarded them special […]