Gratulerer med dagen!!

Dear Vesterheim Lodge Members:
Gratulerer med dagen!!
Syttende Mai (17th of May) is just around the corner. This year’s festivities will be held on Saturday, 19 May 2012 and
include: the Fjellborg Vikings http://www.fjellborg.org/ , a parade, accordion music by Ron Tomocik, food, fellowship,
folk-dancing, and games for all ages. I am looking forward to seeing all of our members and guests at Atonement Lutheran
Church.
Can you believe that Spring is half over? As the weather in Colorado begins to warm up and our thoughts turn to summer,
one suddenly realizes that in 6-weeks we will be celebrating mid-summer in Estes Park at the Twentieth Annual
Scandinavian Midsummer Festival, and everyone knows what that means…all hands on deck!!
So, it’s time to sign-up for cookie baking, lefse making, and volunteering to help out with the Vesterheim Food booth or at
one of the Festival booths. We need your help to make this year’s 20th anniversary festival a success!
This year we have tweaked and hopefully improved our plan for the festival and fund-raising. Recognizing the amount of
people and time that it takes to make and sell both crafts and food items, the board decided to only sell food at the Scan
Fest and crafts at the Trollheim Christmas Bazaar — the proceeds of both fund our lodge operations, our Adopt-a-School
Jazz Program at Boulder High School, our social and cultural programs, as well as, our donations to Atonement Lutheran
Church for the use of their facilities.
I invite all members and anyone interested in lefse to join us at either or both lefse bakes. Prior lefse making experience is
not necessary. Similar to last year, the lefse baking will take place on two Saturdays from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in twohour shifts starting at 12:30, 2:00, 3:30. On both days, we’ll start by making gluten-free lefse.
The first lefse party will be held at Julie and my home (9155 Blue Mountain Dr., Golden, 80403) on Saturday, 12 May
2012. The second lefse party will be held at the home of Carole and Garry Gorsuch (2443 Kalmia Avenue, Boulder 80304)
on Saturday, 2 June 2012. For more information, please talk to Julie, Garry, Carole, or me.
The festival has been successful because of Vesterheim Lodge’s commitment during the past four years. Let’s work
together to make this year’s festival the most successful festival yet!
Fraternally,
Erik B Peters, President
President
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MAY
May 4
Fri 9:30
CRAFTS at LaVonne Peterson’s. 303-465-5070
May 8
Tues 6:30
VESTERHEIM BOARD MEETING at Atonement Lutheran Church,
Baseline and Inca Parkway. Meeting is open to all members.
May 12
Sat 12:30-5:30
LEFSE MAKING. Erik & Julie’s. 9155 Blue Mountain Drive, Golden.
RSVP 720-524-6929.
May 17
Thurs
HÅNDARBEIDER will go out and celebrate. Call Joy for details.
303-664-1023.
May 19
Sat 4-7
GENERAL MEETING: SYTTENDE MAI CELEBRATION.
Potluck. Fjellborg Vikings, Ron Tomocik, children’s activities. Bring
family, friends. See Cultural Corner on p.3 for details.
May 30
Wed 11:30-2
BOOK CLUB at “The Egg & I”, Basemar Shopping Center. Discussing
“The Princes of Ireland” by Edward Rutherford, chapters 4-6. See Cultural
Corner in this newsletter for details.
JUNE
June 1
Fri 9:30
CRAFTS at Jan Roger’s. 303-499-9839.
June 2
Sat 12:30-5:30
LEFSE MAKING. Carol & Garry Gorsuch. 2443 Kalmia Ave, Boulder.
RSVP 303-443-3380.
June 12
Tue 6:30
VESTERHEIM BOARD MEETING at Atonement Lutheran Church,
Baseline and Inca Parkway. Meeting is open to all members.
Jun 23-24
Sat & Sun
All day
SCANDINAVIAN MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL. Estes Park. Need
volunteers for set-up, demo tents (craft & lefse), food tent, baking.
June 27
Wed 11:30-2
BOOK CLUB at “The Egg & I”, Basemar Shopping Center. Discussing
“The Princes of Ireland” by Edward Rutherford, chapters 7-9. See
Cultural Corner for details.
OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES
May 20
Sun 12:30
Fjelldalen’s 17 Mai picnic/parade. Sterne Park (So.) Littleton
May 20
Sun 12:30
Stein Fjell’s 17 May. Good Samaritan Pavilion, Loveland.
May 20
Sun 1 pm
Trollheim’s 17 May Smorgåsbord. Trollheim Lodge, Lakewood.
June 6-9
All Day
District 6 Convention, Mesa, AZ
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CULTURAL CORNER
17TH OF MAY
Vesterheim Lodge will celebrate the Syttende Mai on Saturday May 19 at 4:00pm. The Viking Re-enactors will
perform and display Viking artifacts. This group puts a tremendous amount of time into creating Viking tools,
swords, and other utensils. This has been very popular with the children and we encourage all children of all
ages to join us for this celebration. We are fortunate to have this group with us again. Vesterheim also
welcomes Ron Tomocik to play his accordion. He is an excellent musician and can play many different ethnic
songs. Hot dogs and ice cream will be provided by Vesterheim but we are asking our members to bring a side
dish. Norwegian dishes are always welcome but any side dish or dessert would be great! Invite your neighbors
and friends to join us for a wonderful celebration! This event will be held at Atonement Lutheran Church,
Baseline and Inca Parkway.
SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL
The Scandinavian Festival will be held in Estes Park June 23-24. Vesterheim Lodge sponsors this Festival and
puts a great amount of work into it. We decided to do this three years ago because we feel this is a very valuable
Scandinavian cultural event and we want it to continue. We will have a food booth which is our main
fundraising event as well as helping with the demonstration, raffle, and silent auction booths. Erik Peters, our
Lodge President, is directing the Festival this year. Addy Martinez will be calling again for cookies to sell and
Jo Kirkenaer will be in charge of hot dog sales. Gary and Carol Gorsuch will also demonstrate lefse making so
as you can see our whole Lodge is involved in this. Last year we had good participation and hope we can count
on everyone this year also!
BOOK CLUB
We are reading The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga) by Edward Rutherfurd. The saga begins in tribal, preChristian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty High Kings at Tara. In April we read the first three
chapters and for May 30 we plan on reading chapters 4-6 which is the section on the Vikings. For our June 27
Book Club we plan to finish the book and will read chapters 7-9. This is a long book but one well worth
reading. Our book club is open to all who love to read and enjoy Scandinavian literature. We meet the last
Wednesday of every month at 11:30 am at the “Egg and I” in Boulder.
VESTERHEIM’S LIBRARY
Vesterheim Lodge has a library located in the chapel at Atonement. We are starting to collect a good variety of
Scandinavian books for both adults and children. Some of our book club members have also donated books we
have read to the library. Other donations of quality Scandinavian books are welcomed. We encourage all our
members to check out our library when they come to a meeting and check out some of these interesting books!
If you have questions about our library please contact Helen House or Kathy Erickson.
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Top Ten Most Expensive Cities
1. Trondheim, Norway
2. Stavanger, Norway
3. Zurich, Switzerland
4. Oslo, Norway
5. Geneva, Switzerland
6. Bern, Switzerland
7. Lucerne, Switzerland
8. Perth, Australia
9. Bergen, Norway
10. Tokyo, Japan
Kål-Salat
(Cabbage Salad)
A simple, heart-healthy and delicious
recipe from Joy
Which U.S. and Canadian cities ranked highest on the
list?
Coming in at number 33 is Boston, Masachusetts and
ranking at number 38 is Vancouver, Canada.
1 head white cabbage, finely sliced
1 large onion, finely sliced
2 TBSP RICE vinegar
2 TBSP LIGHT Olive Oil
salt and pepper to taste
Source: SON Newsletter Service
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Safety is the word with Sons of Norway
Annuities
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with fixed annuities. They continue to move forward year
after year with no fear of loss unlike other investments you
may own. So just how safe is your money in our fixed
annuities? Annuities are issued only by life insurance
companies (Sons of Norway is a life insurance company).
With the recent financial crisis going on both nationally and
globally, it is good to know Sons of Norway has a strong and
solid portfolio of high grade bonds and treasuries, no risky
stocks or sub-prime mortgages. To put your mind further at
ease, insurance companies are regulated at the state level,
with very strict regulations. There is also another safety net,
the State Guaranty Fund Associations, covering various
amounts similar to the FDIC. There are tax advantages to
owning annuities and you will find our interest rates are very
respectable.
Trondheim’s flag & coat of arms
TRONDHEIM TOPS LIST
Worldwide cost of living database, Numbeo.com,
has created a new listing of the world's most
expensive cities. While Oslo and Stavanger are often
contenders for the top spot on the list, a new
Norwegian city is taking making it's way into the
ranks to the surprise of many. Trondheim–Norway's
third most populated city with a population just over
176,000–is the new holder of the top spot in the list.
On a personal note I would like to thank
everyone for your cards, phone calls and
well wishes during my recovery from
surgery. As soon as I get the okay to
drive I will be back on the road again.
You can call and I can discuss or mail
information to you.
The ranking is created with the aid of over 23,000
user submitted price comparisions of 240,000
various goods and services.
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INSEMINATION,
EUTHANASIA, &
QUEEN MAUD
was some question of Haakon’s fertility. In the ten
months preceding the prince’s birth, the couple met
only once. At the time when conception would have
taken place, Haakon was on a ship in Denmark, and
Maud in a London hospital.
Well-known Norwegian author Tor Bomann-Larsen
has published his fifth book on the history of King
Haakon and Queen Maud. Bomann-Larsen has had
unique access to the royal archives in Oslo,
Copenhagen, Russia, and England to research his
books and has formulated some controversial ideas,
presented in this article.
Queen Maud was a British princess when she was
married to Haakon, who was at that time a Danish
prince. The newly-wed and somewhat
hypochondriac Maud never wanted to leave England
and move to Denmark, even though she was part
Danish herself. The couple did move back, and
Maud became quite critical of her new country and
its people. She thought the female Danish royalty
‘developed “monstrous forms”...wore “old-fashioned
clothes”, and fretted that this was “contagious”.’
Aftenposten One letter home complained that she
“really never cared” about how she looked, because
no body else there was fashionable.
Maud endured various health problems for years,
and finally passed away in London on November 20,
1938, suffering from terminal cancer. It is suggested
that she may have been euthanized by her physician,
Lord Bertrand Edward Dawson, a well-known
advocate of euthanasia.
Maud’s brother, King
George V, had been injected with a fatal dose of
morphine and cocaine by Lord Dawson three years
earlier. The king had been suffering from a terminal
disease and was spared a painful death.
After six years of marriage, Maud finally got
pregnant. She immediately returned to England and
it wasn’t until the baby, Prince Alexander (later King
Olav), was nine months old that she went back to
Denmark. The royal couple nearly forgot to alert the
Danish monarch that the new prince had been born
on July 2, 1903.
Question has been raised as to who is the true father
of Prince Alexander. In October of 1902 Maud
stayed in a London Hospital under the care of her
father’s physician, Sir Francis Laking. It is during
this time that Maud may have been artificially
impregnated, using the sperm of Sir Francis Laking’s
son, Guy Francis Laking. Bomann-Larsen’s second
book, Folket, contains a photograph of Guy Francis
Laking, who bears a striking resemblance to the
adult Prince Alexander (King Olav).
Since the
couple had remained childless for six years, there
Haakon was not present when Maud died. He was
on his way to England, and heard the news when he
reached Copenhagen.
Sources: Aftenposten, The Foreigner, Scandinavian
Press.
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GUN OWNERSHIP IN
FINLAND
"What's this?", the boss asks.
"Vot! Yew got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make
nine," says the Norwegian.
Finland has the fourth highest rate of gun ownerships
in the world. With a population of 5.3 million, there
are 1.5 million registered firearms.
The USA,
Switzerland, and Yemen are the only countries with a
higher rate. Gun lobbyists say the only reason Finns
own firearms is because they are hunters with the
majority of firearm permits being for hunting, and
the remainder for target
practice. They are also part of
Finland’s military culture, due
to compulsory service in the
army. Last year Finland raised
the age limit for a firearm
license from 15 to 18 for
hunting arms, and 20 for all
others.
"Fair enough,'" says the boss. "Here's your second
question. Use the same rules, but this time represent
the number 99."
The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then
picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes
a smudge on each tree. 'Dar ya go!'
The boss scratches his head and says, 'How on earth
do you get that to represent 99?'
'You must be from Iowa …Each of DA trees is dirty
now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree.
Dat is 99.'
The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually
have to hire this Norwegian, so he says, "All right,
last question. Same rules again, but represent the
number 100."
Finland has the seventh highest per capita rate of
homicides in the EU (higher being Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.)
However, according to Finnish crime experts, there
is no correlation between gun ownership and crimes.
Firearms are used in only 14 percent of homicide
cases, compared with a 2006 statistic of 68% in the
USA. The high level of homicides in Finland is
attributed to the high level of alcohol consumed.
82% of men and 59% of women who committed
murder were intoxicated at the time.
Sources: National Institute of Justice, Scandinavian
Press
The Norwegian fella stares into space some more,
then he picks up the picture again and makes a little
mark at the base of each tree and says,"Dar yew go!
Von hundred!"
The boss looks at the attempt. 'You must be nuts if
you think that represents a hundred!'
The Norwegian winces and shakes his head…UFFDAH…you must be a Finlander from Iowa…he
leans forward and points to the marks at the base of
each tree and says, 'A little dog come along and
pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a
turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd,
and dat makes von hundred! So, ven do I start?"
A NORWEGIAN MATH TEST
--- This only works for those in Minnnesnowta or
Viskonsin…!
Ole, a Norwegian fella, wants a job, but the foreman
doesn’t want to hire him, so he says he won't hire
him until he passes a little math test. Here is your
first question, the foreman said. "Without using
numbers, represent the number 9.'
'Witout numbers ?' The Norwegian says,
easssy.' and proceeds to draw three trees.
Submitted by
Erik Peters
'Dat's
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NORWEGIAN PRINCESS
CONTACTS ANGELS
against Christian doctrine.
Norwegian teleevangelist Jan Hanvold accused her of “blasphemy”
and said she was an “emissary from hell”.
Princess Märtha Louise has just published her
second book on angels, “Englenes hemmelighter”
which translates “The Angels’ Secrets”. This is a
sequel to “Meet your Guardian Angel” which came
out in 2009 and received strong sales. Both books
were co-authored with her business partner Elisabeth
Nordeng. Their first book concentrates on how you
can get in touch with your own inner power and
guardian angel. “The most important thing we wish
to communicate,” they said, “is the pleasure and
excitement that lies in having an honest encounter
with yourself from your true vibrational
structure.” (source: Astarte) If that whetted your
appetite you can now read about the angels’ universe
and angel secrets to make it easier to contact them.
“Angels want to be in
touch with you, but it's
important to know how
they operate and how
they get in touch," the
authors said. "They are
there for us. They are
real. They exist." The
princess says she has
had supernatural
experiences since
childhood.
In 2002, when Märtha Louise married author Ari
Behn, her title “royal” was removed by King Harald
(with her consent) from her official standing in the
royal court. This enabled her to start her own
business and pay income tax separate from the
monarchy. Märtha Louise remains her own person,
independent and unique, continually evolving...
Sources: Scandinavian Press Spring 2012, Astarte,
BBC News 7/25/07, Vancouver Sun 2/16/12,
digitaljournal.com.
LEFSE MAKING
GET - TOGETHERS
We will be having two lefse “parties” this spring to
make all the lefse for sale in our food booth at the
Midsummer Festival.
Saturday May 12 from 12:30-5:30
Erik Peter and Julie Horan
9155 Blue Mountain Dr, Golden
RSVP 720-524-6929
Märtha Louise and Elisabeth Nordeng also run a
new-age school in Oslo, Astarte Education, whose
slogan is “Use angels and your own power to create
miracles in your life.” Here you “can get in touch
with your inner truths by mirroring yourself in others
using readings, healing, crystals and hands-on
therapy.” (source: Astarte) This is a three year
program with a price tag of 30,000 kronor per year.
Saturday June 2 from 12:30-5:30
Carol and Garry Gorsuch
2443 Kalmia Ave, Boulder
RSVP 303-443-3380
Everyone is welcome - novice and experienced lefse
makers. If you have lefse making equipment please
bring it and be sure to let the hosts know if you are
coming. We will be working in shifts so no one
needs to be there all day, unless they wish.
All this has led to some public concern and negative
publicity by the press.
The Norwegian public
broadcast company NRK gave their latest book a
scathing review.
Various religious leaders have
publicly expressed disapproval of her self-reported
ability to contact angels and the dead, saying it goes
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NORWAY AND THE
HOLOCAUST
It was originally published in Norway in 2008, under
the title “Vi skal plukke poteter”, Flukten fra
Holocaust.” The English version was launched at the
Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the
University of Hartford in April 2010. It is endorsed
by Nobel Laureate holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
and has received excellent reviews. Information
about the author and her book can be found on the
website listed below.
Norway has been largely overlooked in the history of
the holocaust because of its small Jewish population.
A book has now been written on this subject by
Norwegian born Irene Berman.
In 1940 Germany
invaded Norway, and
by 1942 the deportation
of Norway’s Jews to the
concentration camps
began. At that time
there
were
approximately 2000
Jews living there.
Many of them had
come from Germany
and other Eastern
European countries
back in the 1930s, in order to find a safe haven from
the rising power of Hitler. Of the 771 Jews that were
deported during the war, only 28 men survived. 238
Norwegian Jewish families died. Today there are
around 1500 Jews living in Norway, mainly in Oslo
and Trondheim.
Sources: Nordic Spirit Newsletter Fall 2011
www.norwayandtheholocaust.com
BRA SIZE ON NAME TAGS ?
The Dutch lingerie company Change has a policy
requiring its employees to include on their name tags
their bust circumference and cup size. But not for
long. One shop assistant in Sweden is getting this
off her chest and has taken her complaint to the
Commercial Employees Union, which is now filing a
lawsuit against Change. An employee told the union
paper Handelsnytt “We have dirty old men coming
into the shop looking at my cup size....Guys selling
underwear don’t have to show their size.” Change
sells 90 bra sizes, up to a J cup.
With the help of the Norwegian Resistance
Movement, Irene and her family barely escaped to
Sweden where they lived for the next three years.
Within hours of their arrival there, the Norwegian
State Police in Oslo began their systematic round-up
of all Jewish families, who were booked for
mandatory passage on a ship to their final destination
- Auschwitz.
Seven members of Irene’s father’s
family were among those who did not get out in time
and were killed in the camps.
Sources: thelocal.se, Scandinavian Press
LATE SUMMER PICNIC
STORFJELL
Be sure to Mark Your Calendars for the Storfjell Late
Summer Picnic to be held at Grand Lake on August
6th. There will be a narrated
boat ride by an experienced
guide to tell us many historic
facts about the Grand Lake
area. It’s lots of fun, and
there’s lots of good food to
eat.
More in a future
Newsletter.
Arnfinn Moland, director of Norway's Resistance
Museum, encouraged Irene to research this topic,
resulting in her book, “We are Going to Pick
Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold
Story”. It is a memoir of Irene’s experiences during
and after the war, as well as those of others she
interviewed, who returned afterwards to rebuild their
community.
Extensive research went into the
preparation of this book.
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S.O.N. NORWEGIAN
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
forward to being a delegate at future
conventions……. Our own Barbara Robb will be
the “Cookie Monster” – locked in a room with the
cookies until the breaks - so we know they will be in
good hands! We will need to coordinate transport,
so please let me know if you have cookies to go, and
also who will be driving to the convention, so we
can get all these cookies there safely. Magna Tusen
Takk!
Vesterheim members: Tell Erik Peters at
720-524-6929 or Myra Kirkenaer at 303-823-2474.
If you are a computer user, the Sons of Norway web
site, http://www.sofn.com, has language resources
available to members. You will need to login to use
the site. If you do not have a user name and
password, it is easy to set them up. When you get
logged in click on Resources then click on
Norwegian Language and choose one of the
following.
Deaths, 2010-2012 - Please remember that it
your Lodge’s responsibility to notify our SON
Minneapolis Office of a Lodge members passing.
The “Notification of Death” form can be found in the
SofN website under forms/Lodge forms. This must
be filled in and forwarded to Minneapolis as soon as
possible – it will also stop future membership billing.
A Memorial Service to remember these members
takes place at the District Convention every 2 years.
If Minneapolis has not been advised, these people
will be missed for this service. To ensure our past
members are remembered at our convention in Mesa,
AZ in June, please be sure that this form has been
sent to Minneapolis, and as a back-up, send the
names for your Lodge to me also. I will pass these
names to the person in charge of the Memorial
Service so she can confirm that she has all names.
You can send these names to me at any time, and if
need be, make additions as late as Friday, June 1st, so
hopefully we will not miss anyone this year.
Norwegian in 5 Minutes a Month
This program consists of 37 lessons of simple
phrases, written in Norwegian with English
translations and pronounced by native speakers.
They are all aimed at the beginner level and will give
you a sense of what the language sounds like and
how it works.
Norwegian for Reading Comprehension
This is a brand-new and unique course in reading
Norwegian for general understanding. This program
covers the many historical forms of Norwegian, and
teaches you innovative reading strategies for
understanding anything from modern web pages to
old immigrant letters.
NOTES FROM YOUR
DISTRICT ZONE DIRECTOR
Contact information – Please notify the SON
International Office, Minneapolis, when making a
change of your telephone number and/or e-mail
address. I think most update a mailing address, but
don’t think to update other contact information.
When updating local and district information, the
information from Minneapolis is our guide, and if
that information is no longer valid, your contact
information in the NEW directory will be of no
value. This is especially difficult when updating the
directory for the district! Your help to keep your
contact information current will be greatly
appreciated.
Cookies – All Lodges have received the
information packet for the 2012 District Convention
being held in Mesa, AZ in June. In that packet is a
letter requesting all Lodges contribute cookies for
the daily cookie and coffee breaks. All who have
attended conventions know how popular these
breaks are, and the amazing amount of cookies
consumed during these breaks! Typically the lodges
near the Host Lodge for the convention contribute
cookies. However, this year there is no Host Lodge
– the “host” is the District Board, which covers all
Zones and all Lodges. Therefore, we ask that you all
help out to ensure that we have enough cookies to
keep these Norske delegates happy, and looking
Crystal Sundet
Dist 6, Zone 8 Director
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR
SCANDINAVIAN
MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL
JUNE 23-24, 2012
silent auction, Vesterheim’s food tent,
audience tent, lefse booth, and 3 10x10s for
vendors. Also, the rental tables and c h a i r s
need to be distributed, and ballasts secured.
Tear-down is Sunday from 4-6, after the
festival. It goes pretty fast, and includes
taking down the tents and packing them
up, making sure no trash is lying around the
grounds, and stacking the rental tables and
chairs for pick-up.
We’d like 8 of you for set-up and 10-12 for
tear-down.
CONTACT: Erik Peters. 720-524-6929,
[email protected].
The festival is less than two months away! This
means we are looking for volunteers. You can help
out in many ways. There should be something fun
for everyone to do. All volunteer time is in shifts so
there will be lots of time to enjoy the festival.
Without our volunteers we would not be able to have
a festival. We have a variety of jobs to choose from.
If you would like to be a volunteer, please contact us.
Flowers:
Visiting local nurseries, stores, funeral
parlors, etc. for flower donations to use on
the Maypole and on the stage. Or, donating
flowers and/or greens from your own yard.
We have a list of donors from previous years
as contacts. If you have any suggestions, let
us know! After picking up the flowers on
Friday June 22, you would take them to our
flower coordinator in Longmont.
CONTACT: Arlene Hunter. 303-776-7078,
[email protected].
Silent Auction:
Morning Shift 9-1: Includes help setting up
booth and overseeing silent auction booth. 2
persons per shift.
Afternoon Shift 1-5: Includes help packing
items up at close of the day and overseeing
silent auction booth. 2 persons per shift.
If you have any Scandinavian items that are
in very good condition that you would like to
donate to the auction, please let Lynne
know.
CONTACT: Lynne Anderson, 303-652-3263,
[email protected].
Raffle:
Morning Shift 9:30-1
Afternoon shift Saturday 1-5, Sunday 1-4
2 persons per shift. Selling raffle tickets
(Icelandair roundtrip tickets for 2 to
Scandinavia, and Brekke Tours donation), at
the raffle booth.
CONTACT: Steve Persson, 720-438-8670,
[email protected].
Demonstration Booth:
If you have a special craft you wish to
demonstrate or teach, please let us know as
soon as possible. It can be either for children
or adults.
CONTACT: Ann Hinman at 303-684-0987,
[email protected]. .
Set-Up and Tear-Down:
Set-up is Friday June 24, noon until finished.
Any amount of time that afternoon would
be appreciated. We need to set up the
tents for the demonstration booth, raffle,
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Vesterheim’s Food Booth:
We need: 1) cooks for hot dogs 2) sales
persons for the soda, lefse and baked goods
3) cashiers 4) bakers to supply the cookies,
breads, etc to sell. Addy Martinez will
arrange the shifts. Let her know what times
you can help out and in what areas.
CONTACT: Addy Martinez, 303-499-5589,
[email protected].
Lefse Making and Lefse Booth:
Would you like to help demonstrate making
lefse in the lefse tent, or come to one of our
lefse making gatherings where we spend the
afternoon rolling and cooking lefse to sell in
our food booth? A lefse get-together is a fun
way of getting to know your lodge members
better. You don’t need to be an expert - we’ll
show you how. We are meeting on Saturday
May 12 from 12:30-5:30, at Erik and Julie’s
home, 9155 Blue Mountain Drive, Golden,
and Saturday June 2 from 12:30-5:30 at
Garry and Carol Gorsuch’s, 2443 Kalmia,
Boulder.
CONTACT: Garry Gorsuch, 303-443-3380,
[email protected] OR Erik Peters,
720-524-6929, [email protected].
!
NORWAY'S POPULATION
HITS 5 MILLION
On Monday, March 19th, Norway's population
officially reached the 5 million mark. Boosted by
record-high growth rates, statisticians believe
Norway's population increase is largely due to three
factors, high fertility rate, a strong economy, and a
stable democracy, making it a desirable location for
immigrants.
Historically, Norway has suffered a few setbacks in
population growth. Notably, the Black Plague years
of the mid 1300s, when 60% of Norway's population
died and in the mid to late 1800s, when a significant
number of Norwegians emigrated to the U.S. It
wasn't until the 1940s and later in 1975 that Norway
surpassed the three and four million mark.
Contrary to 160 years ago when Norway was losing
much of it's population to emigration, Norway's
recent population boom is mostly due to
immigration. In 2011, data collected by Statistics
Norway (SSB), indicated that immigrants accounted
for 71% of Norway's growth in the past year, with
the bulk of immigrants hailing from Poland, Sweden
and Pakistan.
SSB researchers also say it is likely that longer life
spans, increased fertility rates and a rise in paid
maternity and paternity leave have also had a larger
effect on Norway's recent population growth.
Source: SON Newsletter Services
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VESTERHEIM LODGE 6-118 OFFICERS & CHAIRPERSONS 2012
President
Vice Pres.
Secretary
Erik Peters
Lynne anderson
Kendra Bartley
Tina Ramp
Treasurer
John Erickson
Financial Sec. LaVonne Peterson
Cultural Dir. Addy Martinz
Editor
Cathy Allen
Social Dir.
Joy Gundersen
Publicity
Cathy Allen
Counselor
Garry Gorsuch
Foundation Arla Olson
Historian
Kay Peters
Musician
Lynne Anderson
Adopt-School Terry Holum
SON Vesterheim Lodge
Cathy Allen
262 Spruce
Boulder, CO 80302
720-524-6929
303-652-3263
303-581-0579
303-443-3559
303-449-1724
303-465-5070
303-499-5589
303-449-9596
303-664-1023
303-449-9596
303-443-3380
303-666-8744
303-444-1756
303-652-3263
303-870-0917
Librarian
Auditor
Greeters
Helen House
Carol Gorsuch
Ailie Swanson
Ellen Grabau
Julie Horan
Marshals
Gary Grabau
Marv Berg
Jan & Dave Rogers
Trustee
Roger Hanson
Tubfrim
Gary Grabau
Road Cleanup Gary Grabau
Sunshine
Ellen Chelesvig
Website
Cathy Allen
Youth/Sports Steve Persson
303-442-0323
303-443-3380
303-494-5787
303-530-3570
720-398-8746
303-530-3570
303-651-9939
303-499-9839
303-499-6273
303-530-3570
303-530-3570
303-443-3121
303-449-9596
720-438-8670