President Message
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President Message
Palm Desert www.solskinn,org • • • • • Editor: Steinar Johansen March 2013 March Calendar ................................... p. 2 Finding your Heritage ............................ p. 4 Google Translate........................................ p. 5 Pictures from Lutefisk Dinner ............. p. 6 More from Lutefisk Dinner ................ p. 7 President Message What an event!!!! Thank you all who contributed your time and energy to making this event a great success. We served 181 meals and had 5 children under the age of 16. We had over 36 volunteers. Many volunteers cooked, baked, set-up, cleaned up and served. I would like to take a moment to give a few special thanks. First Walt Wisler as our lutefisk chef and Bob Hendrix as his assistance received acclaim from guests who are lutefisk hounds from the Midwest,”this is the best lutefisk I have ever eaten”. Thank you, Debera Ellingboe for taking reservations, checks and finding locations for all our guests and filling cancelations as they came in. Thank you, Heidi Albright as our new social director for running the kitchen, cooks and servers to get the food out in a timely manner to all our guests. A comment from a guest was “all the food was great, but we want more lutefisk!”Thank you to Nancy for ordering the lutefisk which was very stressful because our supplier is not good at communication. She lost nights of sleep worrying that it wouldn’t arrive. In addition she and Richard Ellingboe ran our bar. Not being a lutefisk fan I do enjoy the excitement this event brings to our community. Also for those that did not attend we had four Norwegian visitors to the valley that happened by and were able to join us due to dinner cancelations at the last minute. So their last week in the US was spent eating lutefisk, with a much of crazy Americans in Pam Desert, California. Who would have thought that we would be part of their trip in the US? 1 Our next big event is coming up, that being our Scandinavian Heritage Day. There will be lots to do, learn, eat and entertainment. We will need volunteers to help so please contact me if you can volunteer or I will come find you. Tell your friends; bring your friends, family and neighbors. Fraternally, Luella Grangaard DATE Mar 1, Friday EVENT Lunch bunch Mar 3, Sunday Mar 7, Thursday March 10, Sunday Mar 16, Saturday March 21, Thursday March 25, Monday Convention meeting Hardanger Business Meeting Heritage Day Hardanger Happy Hour April 4, Thursday April 20, Saturday Hardanger Social—Meatball cook-off LOCATION/TIME _____________ 11:30 Kaiser Grill, Palm Springs Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436 1:30 PM Cheryl Jensen’s 760-321-2380 3:00 PM, Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436 1:30 PM, Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Hope Lutheran all day 3:00 PM Cheryl Jensen 760-321-2380 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Palm Desert Country Club Cactus Club, 77200 California Dr, PD Debera Ellingboe 760-699-7436 Phyllis Peterson 760-200-1306 Hope Lutheran April 20 & 21 EVENTS OUT OF THE VALLEY Scandinavian Festival California Lutheran Solskinn Lodge Year 2012 in Review March Birthdays 2 3 4 10 15 17 18 23 Haagenson Venita D Larson Genevieve J Waldeland Beryl A Osmer Elizabeth Risdahl Ellingboe Michael Dean Picking Luke Nelson Don O Arneson Dolores A Each year the lodge leadership completes a Lodge Achievement Form (LAF). This form is submitted to our Zone Director, Rick Hausvik, then to our District President, Lyle Berge and then to the International Board. Just to share some of the data from this year’s form completion. We held 72 events including socials, classes, supper club, happy hour and lunch bunch. We tallied up 5368 hours of volunteer time towards making our lodge a success and spend $9911.04 on those events. 1. Hurra for deg som fyller ditt år! Ja, deg vil vi gratulere! Alle i ring omkring deg vi står, og se, nå vil vi marsjere. Bukke, nikke, neie, snu oss omkring, danse så for deg med hopp og sprett og spring, ønske deg av hjertet alle gode ting og si meg så, hva vil du mere? Gratulere! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 2 Goals 2012 Solskinn Lodge Calendar Year Increase membership by 5% which would be a net gain of 5 adult members, total member number 120 115 not met Ten members complete 1 level of any culture skill. Must receive a bar. Met Plan, sponsor and provide a folkdance dance workshop 2012 (cost $400.00) not completed Collect $700 for the Foundation. Met Submit an application for a grant to obtain a professional rosemaling instructor for 2012. Met Attendance at Heritage Day 300. Met Outreach to 2 grade schools for Framtid. Not Met completed one International Day at a grade school Annual SPPC Fundraiser at Shaker’s Restaurant in Glendale Every year in March, the Southland Past Presidents Club (SPPC) holds a fundraiser to provide ½ “camperships” to descendents of Sons of Norway members who attend Camp Trollfjell (the Language and Heritage Camp) at Camp Norge in Alta, CA. This Fundraiser is held Tuesday, March 12, 2013 between the hours of 3:00 - 8:00 pm at Shaker’s Family Restaurant, 801 N. Central Ave, Glendale, CA. SMALAHOVE When you order your meal, tell the server that you are with the Sons of Norway group. 25% of your dinner tab and bakery purchase will go to the SPPC campership fund to assist children attending the 2 week summer camp. Shaker’s (not the pizza place) is a family restaurant that serves good home-cooked meals; so bring your family, friends and neighbors. You don’t have to be a Sons of Norway member to participate. Come and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Shaker’s, eat a great meal, and help our children. Vaughn Simon Smalahove is one of those Norwegian delicacies that does not seem to have migrated to the United States, unlike, lutefisk, lefse, and krumkage. One reason is probably that sheep were not often raised in areas that Norwegians settled. Smalahove (also called smalehovud or skjelte) is a Western Norwegian dish made from a sheep’s head, usually eaten at Christmastime. The name comes from the combination of the Norwegian words hove, a dialectal form of hovud, meaning head, and smale, one word for sheep. In the attached picture the smalahove is shown with mashed rutabagas, a bottle of akvavit, some beer and wine. In Voss, a town in the mountains near the south-west Norwegian fjords, people have always eaten smalahove, and autumn is the best season to eat it. Ivar Loene runs Norway’s only “smalahove” factory, where patrons can also savor the traditional dish in a restaurant in a wooden chalet. After being delivered by the local butcher, the heads are defrosted and run through a torchblowing machine which burns off the fur. They are then washed, cut open, emptied of the brain and gristle, before being salted and smoked. The head is boiled or steamed for about three hours and served with mashed rutabaga and potatoes. It is also traditionally served with Akvavit. In some preparations, the brain is cooked inside the skull and then eaten with a spoon or fried. One half of a head is one serving. The ear and eye are normally eaten first, as they are the fattest parts and are best eaten warm. “The best part are the eyes. These are the mostused muscles and therefore they taste best,” said Loene. The head is eaten from the front to the back, working around the bones of the skull. Since 1998, an European Union directive forbids the production of smalahove from adult sheep, due to fear of the possibility of transmission of scrapie, a deadly disease of sheep and goats, though scrapie does not appear to be transmissible to humans. It is now only allowed to be produced from the heads of lambs. Smalahove is considered by some to be unappealing or even repulsive. It is mostly enjoyed by enthusiasts, and is often served to tourists. Because of its status as an “extreme” food, tourists often seek it out as a thrill. Voss in particular has benefited from tourists wishing to try it. If you can’t go, please consider giving a donation! Send donations made out to SPPC to: Mike Sondreaal, SPPC treasurer, 1016 Saxon Place, Thousand Oaks, CA 913605347. Joke Ole is the Pastor of the local Norwegian Lutheran Church and Pastor Sven is the minister of the Swedish Covenant Church across the road. One day they are seen pounding a sign into the ground, which said: DA END ISS NEAR! TURN YERSELF AROUNT NOW BAFOR IT ISS TOO LATE! As a car speeds past them, the driver leans out his window and yells, “Leave people alone, you Skandihoovian religious nuts!” From the curve they heard screeching tires and a big splash. Shakin’ his head, Rev. Ole says “Dat’s da terd one dis mornin’.” “Yaa,” Pastor Sven agrees, then asks, “Do ya tink maybe da sign should yust say, ‘Bridge Out?’” 3 Finding your Heritage Sons of Norway Genealogy I never, ever thought I would be working on my genealogy culture skills for Sons of Norway. This was never on my radar until my last trip to Norway, which I have talked about in past articles. Also I told you all about visiting a cabin vi in an Emigration museum in Norm way from Kindred w North Dakota that N I am loosely connected too. When ne I was w at this museum I asked m if they would like a donation of my Great GrandfaG thers minister colth lar, which you can see in the photos. But as I have learned by watching “Antiques Road Show” you need to provide supporting information. So I have been doing research on the Ballestad family to obtain documentation. I have all the information I need to send the collar to Norway but now the story has a twist. When Nancy and I were in Fargo for the International Convention of Sons of Norway, while talking to some members of the Kringen Lodge in Fargo I asked them if they knew any Grangaards, no one had any information so I figured what the heck and asked do you know any Ballestads and the gal answered well yes my cousin Bob Ballestad lives in Fargo. I got his phone number and his uncle’s number and got a hold of his uncle, Melvin who is not related to me. I met Melvin at the Kringen lodge for a drink and then dinner. I got lots of information from him regarding the Ballestads and actually clarified information for me. He had been a member of the church my Greatgrandfather had been minister of in Walcott ND for 30 years. But Melvin had been a member of this church for 89 years, so yes he is the expert. His nephew Bob Ballestad was the son of Luther Ballestad my Grandmothers’ brother, making him my dad’s cousin. Long story short for Christmas I put together all the information I had collected regarding Great-Grandpa Ballestad sent it to all my cousins and now this new second cousin Bob Ballestad. Low and behold I got a call from him in North Dakota and he was visiting California and would like to meet me. He came to work and we talked an I from and that meeting th obtained inforob mation about m a relative in Norway. How N ex exciting. And th then we had su such a good ti time we met la later in the day fo for dinner. I no now have new fa family I never, ev ever knew about. So finding your heritage can expand even your current family. We have many lodge members that are knowledgeable on genealogy. I am sure they would support you in your search and Sons of Norway has many documents to support your journey in the culture skills program. Submitted by Luella Grangaard 4 Lodge members Nancy Madson and Cheryl Jensen both entered Hardanger items in the 2013 International Date Festival, in Indio. Nancy won first and second place ribbons on her Hardanger ornaments. Cheryl won first place and best in the Division for her Hardanger blouse. Congratulations ladies on your work and promoting Norwegian Heritage through your outstanding demonstration of a uniquely Norwegian needle art. Google Translate name on the product. Tapestry is another technique that had its heyday during the Renaissance were cultivated in Gudbrandsdalen. In the early 1600s, Norwegian iron producing furnaces of great artistic value and interest. This was the beginning of Norwegian craft. The tradition of carving and rose painting continued in the countryside until the late 1800’s. When Norway became independent in 1814 given craft new opportunities. Poverty in the ensuing decades, however, was marked by poverty, which hindered development. In the latter half of the 1800s was a Norwegian craft still strongly influenced by ancient traditions, but new techniques were gradually introduced. Hadeland Glassworks was established in 1852 and started production of more refined glass, often using foreign techniques. Egersund Faiance introduced English stoneware and Porsgrunn Porcelain was opened in 1887…… Goggle translate is a pretty amazing tool. You can use it to translate single words, sentences or even full articles. As you will see in this example, the tool does a pretty good translation. It is not 100% correct but in most cases you can easily understand what the article is all about. To get to the translating tool, you simply type www.translate.google.com and then select the language you want to translate from and the language you want to translate to. Also, if you are searching for Norwegian articles to translate, Google is a great place to start. However, instead of using Google global, type in www.google.no in your browser and you get Google Norway which focuses on Norwegian articles. Here is an example from a website, the website hƩp:// www.norge.se/Om-Norge/kultur/kulturarv/craŌs/ This is just a few paragraphs. You can copy the whole link to a newspaper into the area for translation or you can simply type in a word or paste a sentence or a paragraph into the translator. The rest is magic. Enjoy google translate. Rosemaling is a Norwegian special painting technique based on roses of different size and shape as the main pattern. This art form was especially popular in rural communities, rose painting is now regarded as a classic Norwegian folk art. During the 1500s Norwegian goldsmiths began to stamp their products, and since that time are always craftsman’s Submitted by Steinar Johasnen Foundation Your donations come back to us in many ways scholarships, cultural grants and humanitarian support for those who are in need of help. Please note the donation form in this newsletter that gives you an opportunity to recognize a family member or friend. Cards are sent notifying them of a donation to the Foundation in their honor. Please don’t deny Porky’s chance to meet with his girlfriend ... when they meet is in your hands. Thank you!!! Once again the generosity of our members showed in their donations to the Sons of Norway Foundation. The Pink Pigs were well fed at the Lutefisk Dinner. A total of $170 was fed to the Pigs. No Lutefisk was found in their innards so it was a “clean” feed. Thank you very much for your support. Porky is well on his way, it’s a long highway, to visit his girlfriend, Priscilla. $343.00 has been donated to help Porky reach his goal of $1199.00. Pricilla awaits Pork’s arrival. If you’d like to take a Pink Pig home, it’s an easy place to collect your lose change. Recall how your mother told you change in your pockets made holes. Also, if you have a Pink Pig at home, please bring it to our next social and I’ll be happy to exchange it for you. David Lutes Foundation Direct or 5 Ed Karlsen, Norm Larsen Debera Ellingboe Melody Hunsberger, Doreen Karlsen Walt Wisler, Diane Presley, Bob Hendrix The Ward family JR Fleichner Carole Gould, Berit Reistad Richard Ellingboe 6 February Happy Hour Pictures Lutefisk Dinner Pictures Lutefisk Dinner 7 Solskinn Lodge Officers - 2013 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Membership Social Director Cultural Director Editor: Publicity Director: Counselor: Sunshine Girl: Photographer: Luella Grangaard 363-7704 Diane Presley 401-1752 Debera Ellingboe 699-7436 Carole Gould 636-4652 Nancy Madson 343-0848 Heidi Albright 449-1632 Luella Grangaard 363-7704 Steinar Johansen 898-3340 Berit Reistad 485-1130 Nancy Madson 343-0848 Charlotte Larsen 328-1791 Steinar Johansen 898-3340 Miriam Hendrix 320-9244 Foundation Director: David Lutes 674-1933 Tubfrim Chairman: John Strom 568-3483 Tel. Tree Chairman: Jules Hamland 318-4199 Historian: Claudia Bell 340-3992 Assist: Camp Norge: Ronna Clymens 951-849-1690 Supper Club: Librarian: Corrine Bjerke 360-5229 Auditors: Normal Larsen 328-1791 Glenn Bell 340-3985 March 16, 2013 • L earn fun ures • Obta about G e h t i t n l o • u c n Lear n Scand enealog y join i d avian i n ab e and t Scandin nment an out t navian T m o he V r • C rn abou er tai t iking avel Inf n E a , or m s • L e oy Music ation j • En vies Mo • • • • Meatball Lunch Scandinavian Cookies Lefse Almond Cake • Sho Sh hop p ve vendors with Scandinav ian Merchand diise • Experience Culture and Folk Arts • View Food demonstrat ions Location: Hope Lutheran Church, Social Hall 45-900 Portola Avenue Palm Desert, CA 92260 Time: 10:00 A.M. -3:00 P.M. Contact: Debera Ellingboe 760-699-7436 [email protected] Steinar Johansen 1820 N Mira Loma Way Palm Springs CA 92262 Save stamps for tubfrim cut 1/4 inch around the stamp 8