April 2015 Sundfjord Sun

SUNDFJ RD SUN
Sundfjord Lodge # 66-065
April 2015
Editor
Editor Lise Fleming
Meeting Location:
4630 Wheeler Ave.
La Verne, CA 91750
Rock of the Foothills Church
Second Saturday at 12:00 Noon
Kalendar
(Coming Events)
Open-faced
Sandwich
Demonstration
by Lise
APR
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17 – 19
18 & 19
President’s Message.
Our March
meeting and
luncheon went
well. We had
our annual
corned beef and
cabbage with all
the trimmings
and great
desserts. I want to thank all the
cooks and all the helpers who
stayed to clean up after the
meeting. Also thanks to Kirsten
Kjelby for the Irish music played
during our luncheon.
A BIG “Tusen Takk” goes to Art
and Pat Aslesen for the video
presentation of the KonTiki
expedition. Most of us had never
se this before and we enjoyed
every minute of Thor
Heyerdahl’s remarkable journey.
Some of us attended Vinland’s
Bunad show and lapskaus dinner
on March 15 at Vinland Lodge in
Temecula. We are always greeted
very warmly when we attend
their events. It was good seeing
old friends and make new ones
from the other lodges. Many
beautiful Bunads and a good time
were had by all.
A car load of our members
attended the SPPC fundraiser at
Shakers in Glendale on March
17. Our lodge members always
support this event.
We will be celebrating Easter at
our April meeting.
Try to attend the Cal Lutheran
Scandinavian Festival on April 18
and 19 in Thousand Oaks.
At the May meeting, we will be
celebrating our Constitution Day
with open-faced sandwiches.
Flag hoisting ceremony at the San
Bernardino City Hall will this
year be on Friday, May 15. Plan
to attend this special event; we
will have a car pool.
GOD PÅSKE!
Agnes Anderson Deeb
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Sundfjord’s Meeting
Peer Gynt Lodge’s
Western Night
Folk Dance at
Camp Norge
Cal Lutheran
Scandinavian
Festival in
Thousand Oaks
SPPC Meeting at
Edvard Grieg Lodge
In LaCanada, CA
MAY
8 Sundfjord’s Meeting
15 “Syttende Mai”
Celebrations at San
Bernardino City Hall
at 10:00 AM
16 “Syttende Mai” Flag
hoisting Ceremony
at Peer Gynt’s
Lodge at 11:00 am
17 “Syttende Mai”
Celebrations at
Nansen Field, San
Pedro at 11:00 am
17 “Syttende Mai”
Celebrations at the
Norwegian Seamen
Church in San
Pedro at 5:00 pm
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2014/2015 Sundfjord’s Officers
President:
Agnes Deeb
(909) 985-1076
Vice President: Open
Counselor:
Pauline Pederson
(909) 986-1655
[email protected]
Secretary:
Lise Fleming
(909) 624-2868
[email protected]
Treasurer:
Ruth Higley
(909) 982-4113
[email protected]
Membership
Walli Jean Stranahan
Secretary:
(909) 989-1394
[email protected]
Social
Agnes Deeb
Director:
(909) 985-1076
Marshal:
Mary Stewart
(909) 982-5238
Foundation
Ruth Higley
Director:
(909) 982-4113
[email protected]
Cultural
Director:
Open
Publicity
James (Jim) Stewart
Director:
(909) 982-5238
[email protected]
Editor:
Lise Fleming
(909) 624-2868
[email protected]
Web Master
Art Aslesen
(909) 593-4422
[email protected]
Historian:
Char Nelson
(909) 593-4447
[email protected]
Sports
James (Jim) Stewart
Director:
(909) 982-5238
[email protected]
Youth
Diane Griego
Directors:
(909) 391+3232
Sunshine:
Mary Stewart
(909) 982-5238
Greeter:
Brian Stranahan
(909) 989-1394
[email protected]
TubFrim
Char Nelson
(909) 593-4447
Auditors:
Dennis Robinson and
Brian Stranahan
Camp Norge
Lise Fleming
Ambassador
[email protected]
Zone Director: Rick Hausvik
(619) 579-5447
[email protected]
Insurance Rep: Dennis Burreson
1(800) 448-2499
James Donovan
(760) 440-9905
Gratulerer med dagen
April
4……………………..Shaun Pederson
9……………………..Hailey Higley
15……………………..Mark Fleming
24……………………..Diane Griego
25……………………..Anne-Lise Helland
May
5...................................Ashley Davis
10..................................Jim Stewart
12..................................Paige Pederson
19……………………..Dean Pederson
God Bedring
(Get Well)
Update on Lola Peterson who fell and
broke her hip last month. A pin was put
into her hip. She was moved for a while
to Woods Rehabilitation Center in La
Verne but is back at Pacifica Senior
Living in Chino where she is receiving
physical therapy.
Pauline Pederson is recuperating at
home after her two surgeries and is
coming along slowly.
We wish them both a speedy recovery.
(Please let us know if any of our members are under the weather.)
Celebrating Viking St. Patrick’s Day
Irish Viking –
Diane Griego
Sporting the big
“KAHUNA” hat
is Art Aslesen.
Photo by Phil
Estebo
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Bunad Show at Vinland Lodge in Temecula
Six Sundfjord members; Agnes Deeb, Diane Griego, Crysten
Cole, Phil Estebo, Nancy Reed and Lise Fleming attended
the Lapskaus/Bunad show at Vinland Lodge. Also attending
was District 6 Vice President Luella Grangaard, District 6
Secretary Nancy Madsen and our Zone 6 Director Rick
Hausvik. Good “lapskaus”, wonderful desserts and great
raffle. Most lodges in Zone 6 were represented; lots of
beautiful bunads and we all had an enjoyable time together.
Raffle
Winners
Crysten Cole
Rick Hausvik
Hardanger bunad
To the left are Sundfjord’s members Diane Griego and Agnes
Deeb
Påske i Norge
Easter in Norway is dominated by Easter chickens,
Easter eggs in all colors and occasionally Easter
bunnies. Yellow chickens are everywhere at Easter time.
Drawn chickens, plastic chickens, cotton chickens,
chickens made of all sorts of materials can be seen in
private homes, shop windows, newspapers and
magazines, on plastic bags and on television. It’s no
wonder yellow has become the color of Easter in
Norway. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter
Monday are national holidays in Norway. School
children however have 6 days of Easter vacation (not
counting the weekends). The Norwegians in general do
not pay much attention to the religious aspect of Easter.
Of course they know the story, but only some will go to
church services.
The “Kvikk Lunsj” phenomenon
For many Norwegians, the Easter tradition includes
sitting down to a big Easter dinner with the extended
family. Perhaps there is an Easter egg hunt, deviled eggs
or ham are served, and as per usual with such
gatherings, you probably eat too much. Norwegians’
traditional family Easter gathering is a bit different.
Many flock to cabins in the
mountains for one final (and
often obligatory) winter ski
or to a cabin by water to
welcome in the spring. Long
hikes on foot or on skis
(depending on the conditions) are the norm. In the
backpack go the essentials: coffee, oranges and yes….
Kvikk Lunsj, Norway’s unofficial “tursjokolade” (tour
chocolate).
And of course, they are all working on the
“påskebrunheten” (the Easter tan) which is a symbol
that you went somewhere during the Easter holidays.
Påske Krim
Reading crime stories and detective novels during Easter
is a national trait in Norway. Each year, nearly every TV
and radio channel produces crime series for Easter. Even
the milk company
prints crimes stories
on their cartons.
Publishers churn out
series of books known
as “Easter Thrillers or
“Påske krim”. Easter
is a high time for
reading crime and
detective stories in
Norway.
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Cal Lutheran Scandinavian Festival
April 18 and 19, 2015
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
60 West Olson Road, Thousand Oaks, CA
The Campus of California Lutheran University will be
transformed into a microcosmic Scandinavia during the 2day festival.
This popular event will include cultures of Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Both days are
filled with music, folk dance, demonstrations, food, craft,
vendors, lectures, Viking Camp and games, so lots of
activities for young and old.
Admission:
Adults $ 10, 00, Teenagers $ 5, 00, Children FREE
Sons of Norway
Mission Statement
The mission of Sons of Norway is
to promote and preserve the
heritage and culture of Norway, to
celebrate our relationship with
other Nordic countries, and provide
quality insurance and financial
products to its members.
Sons of Norway Web sites
Sundfjord Lodge: www.sundfjord.org
International: www.sofn.com
District 6: www.sofn6.org
Camp Norge: www.campnorge.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sonsofnorway
Blog: http://sonsofnorwayblog.blogspot.com
Syttende mai Flag Hoisting
Ceremony at San Bernardino
Soldalen Lodge invites all lodges to their 35th
flag hoisting ceremony at San Bernardino
City Hall at 300 North D Street, on
Friday, May 15 at 10:00 am
After the ceremony, we will gather at a local
restaurant to continue the celebration at a
no-host lunch.
Wearing bunad, red vests with white shirt or
a red shirt are encouraged.
Anne Knighten
District Six Scholarships for
Undergraduate Students
attending Accredited 4 year American Institutions
Award of three (3) scholarships of
$1,000 each
Application Form and
Requirements are available at:
www.sofn6.org/scholarships
Deadline: April 1, 2015
hurry, hurry, hurry!
Questions: email Carl at
[email protected]
17 of May Tradition
For many years, Fridtjof Nansen and
Solbakken lodges have celebrated the
Norwegian Constitution Day or
“syttende mai” (May 17th) by hosting
a flag raising ceremony. This year,
Peer Gynt Lodge will join them on
Saturday, May 16th to keep this
tradition alive. Come join and help
celebrate this important part of our
heritage at Peer Gynt Hall. 3835
Watseka Ave, Culver City. CA at
10:00 am.
Our speaker will be Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim; history
professor and playwrite from Citrus College in Glendora.
Lunch Menu:
Medister pølse, surkål. small red potatoes, lefse and
dessert. Cost is $ 15.00 per person.
PAID RESERVATION A MUST!
Mail your check to: John Olsen, 9641 Oma PL, Garden
Grove, CA 92841
From Peer Gynt’s Newsletter
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Alaska Cruise in 2015
“Camperships” available from SPPC
For both Camps at Camp Norge
7 Night Alaska Cruise
Royal Caribbean’s
“
Jewel of the Seas”
We invite ALL Lodges to join us
Cruise with Sundfjord Lodge
August 28, 2015 from Seattle, WA
Interior staterooms starts at $ 999.00 (based on double
occupancy) + tax and port fees of $ 203.28. Insurance is
recommended in case of something unforseen should
happen. For us to be seated together in the dining room,
the cruiseline request that ONE person makes all the
reservations. Please book the EARLY dinner seating.
We have selected Laura Sandercock at the AAA Auto
Club in La Verne, CA to be the ONE who make ALL
our reservations. Phone: (909) 596-7973 or (909) 3921444. E-mail: [email protected] Please
let Laura know that you are with the Sons of Norway
group. She is the ONLY person that will get us seated
together at dinners.
“PASSPORT REQUIRED”
For more information or any questions contact Lise
Fleming via e-mail at [email protected], or call
at (909) 624-2868, evenings.
This is a very popular cruise so book
early or you will miss the boat!
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“Camperships” (½ scholarships) are available from
Southland Past Presidents Club (SPPC) for the two
District Six camps held at Camp Norge this year. Camp
Trollfjell, the District Six Language & Heritage Camp for
youth, ages 8-13, will be held July 12-25, 2015. The
Camp Trollfjell “campership” will be $425, half the cost
of the two-week camp registration. The new camp this
year is Trollfjell Folkehøgskule, or Folk High School, for
youth 14-17 years old. This is a one-week session, July 611. The Folkehøgskule campership is $225, half the cost
of that registration. The SPPC deadline for applying for a
“campership” for either session is April 20, 2015.
See the new District Six website, www.sofn6.org for
more information and to apply to attend either session.
Applicants for the SPPC camperships can be a youth
member or a child, grandchild, or great grandchild of a
Sons of Norway member from Zone 5 or Zone 6 in
District Six.
Applications for the SPPC campership should be sent to
Luella Grangaard, SPPC Secretary, P.O. Box 832,
Morongo Valley, CA 92256 or to
Luella
at [email protected] stating the applicant’s name,
age, birth date, telephone number, the reason for wanting
to attend Camp Trollfjell or Trollfjell Folkehøgskule, and
the name of the parent/grandparent member and their
lodge name. The campership application must be
received by April 20, 2015. The number of camperships
to be awarded will be determined at the SPPC Spring
meeting in conjunction with Edvard Grieg’s Anniversary
Dinner on April 25. The camperships will then be
awarded by a drawing.
SPPC Fundraiser at Shakers in Glendale
This year, it was very poor support from the nearby
lodges, only 11 people attended. Of these, 5 members
were from Sundfjord lodge; Harold Shellum, Ruth
Higley, Art & Pat Aslesen and Lise Fleming. For those
who did not attend, please consider sending a donation
to SPPC President Nancy Madson. Our children need
your support!
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Planning a vacation?
I have been to many places, but
I’ve never been in Cahoots.
Apparently, you can’t go alone as
you have to be in Cahoots with someone.
I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one
recognizes you there.
I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an
airport; you have to be driven there.
I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to
jump, and I’m not too much on physical activity
anymore.
I have also been in Doubt. This is a sad place to
go, and I try not to visit there too often.
I’ve been in Flexible, but only when it was very
important to stand firm.
Sometimes I’m in Capable, and I go there more
often as I’m getting older.
One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It
really gets the adrenaline flowing and pumps up
the old heart! At my age, I need all the stimuli I
can get!
I may have been in Continent, but I don’t
remember what country I was in. It’s an age thing.
They tell me it is very wet and damp there.
Søtsuppe – Scandinavian Sweet Soup
Dried fruit soup or "Sweet Soup"
is a Scandinavian favorite.
Ingredients
• 5 cups water
• ½ cup dried apples, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup raisins or currents
• 1/2 cup dried apricots, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup pitted prunes, finely chopped
• 1 heaping Tbsp. pearl tapioca
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 star anise (optional)
1 cup fruit juice, apple, cranberry or lingonberry juice
from IKEA. Bring water to a
steady boil. Stir in dried fruit, pearl tapioca, cinnamon
stick, and star anise, reduce heat to medium, and maintain
at a low simmer for 25 minutes. Stir in fruit juice and heat
for a final 5 minutes. Remove cinnamon and star anise.
Sweet soup can be served either warm or cold, as a dessert
or snack or breakfast selection.
Growing up in Norway, your Editor ate the soup cold
as a dessert with a large spoon of whipped cream in
the center of the soup bowl.
Southern California
Kretsstevne
at KOA campground
in Banning
October 23 – 25
What is TubFrim?
TubFrim was established in 1928 by Postmaster Ditlef
Frantzen in Nesbyen, Norway. The aim was to collect
and sell used stamps and use the proceeds to aid in the
eradication of tuberculosis among
Norwegian children. Since
tuberculosis is no longer the
threat to health that it once was,
today children and youth with
disabilities and special needs
receive the proceeds from the
resale of the stamps. Sons of
Norway have been involved with the organization since
1986 and are its major contributor of stamps from a
group outside of Norway.
Win a Ticket to Norway
While helping children is a great motivation for Sons of
Norway members to participate, there is a special
incentive to say “thank you”. For every pound of
stamps collected, the member or lodge can enter a
drawing, held in mid-January every year, to win a
round trip ticket to Norway, worth up to $1,000.
Save Stamps
Cut the canceled stamps off the envelopes, ¼ inch on
all sides. Do not try to cut them apart. All foreign
stamps should be kept separate
from the American stamps.
TubFrim also accepts used
telephone cards.
If you do not want to cut off the
stamps, please bring the
envelopes to the Lodge
meeting.
Turn your stamps into Lodge
TubFrim Director Char Nelson who will make sure that
for every pound you turn in, your name is entered into
the drawing.
Once a year, in November, we will drop off all the
stamps we collected at the Norwegian Seamen Church
in San Pedro, CA and attend their “Julebasar” Christmas Fair.
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Norway’s International Image is
“Strong and Stable,”
News from Norway
Norway has the World’s second most
expensive Big Mac
A Norwegian Big Mac costs $ 6.30, which puts
Norwegian McDonalds Restaurants in the 2nd place,
behind Switzerland, where a Big Mac costs $ 7.54. But
when Big Mac prices are compared with income in
each country; Norway falls down to the 23rd place.
Big Mac index was
created in 1986 to show
whether a country’s
currency is over- or
undervalued. The index is
based on the theory that
similar goods should
approach each other in price over time (purchasing
power parity). The world famous hamburger is a
commodity that is very similar worldwide. Therefore
many believe that it is suitable for comparisons among
countries.
The index shows that a Norwegian Big Mac is 31.46 %
more expensive than an American burger (which also
costs $ 4.79). So the index suggests that the Norwegian
krone is 31.46 percent overvalued against the US dollar.
Norwegian soldiers sent on 'naked jog'
catch frostbite
Norway's mandatory military service is intended to
toughen up the Arctic nation's young men and women.
But six of its young military police recruits who were
forced to go for a freezing, naked run – and
consequently caught frostbite – appear to have been
pushed too far. In an incident swiftly condemned by the
Norwegian army, six novices at a barracks in
Setermoen – some 160 miles north of the Arctic Circle
– were sent for an
unscheduled jog in the
early hours of morning.
They were forbidden
from wearing any clothes
or footwear, despite
temperatures of -20C (4F). All six required medical treatment for frostbite on
their return to the base. It was not specified which part
of their bodies were suffering from frostbite. It now
appears recriminations are in order for whoever sent the
young recruits on their ill-advised run. Whoever was
behind the incident face being kicked out of the army.
Norway’s international image and reputation are “strong
and stable,” according to a recent survey. Norway has a
positive international image and International relations are
based on trust. The fact that Norway has a good image
helps make Norwegian companies and organizations
attractive partners. It also means that other countries listen
to our views on international issues, perhaps more so than
you would expect, given the size of our country. The
survey measured the countries’ images in the areas of
exports, governance, culture, people, tourism and
immigration/investment. It describes Norway’s international image as stable and resilient, despite the major
upheavals in world politics in recent years. Norway’s
highest score is in the area of governance. This assessment
of Norway’s international image and reputation provides
important input to the work being carried out by the
Foreign Service to promote Norway and Norwegian
From Norwegian Embassy Newsletter
interests abroad.
HM King Harald will visit the U.S.
in May 2015
It has been confirmed that His Majesty King Harald V of
Norway will visit Washington
State and Alaska, May 21-27,
2015. King Harald will start his
visit with a stop in Seattle. It has
been 20 years since his last visit to
this part of the United States.
The King will receive an honorary
doctorate from Pacific Lutheran
University and will also be
meeting with local government officials and the
Norwegian/American community. The program in Alaska
will cover issues regarding the Arctic trade and ties
between Norway and the United States.
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