January 2019 Sons of Norway Lodge Las Vegas, Nevada

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1 Vegas Vikings News January 2019 Sons of Norway Lodge Las Vegas, Nevada Ord Fra Presidenten: Dear Vegas Vikings, The dates for the visit by the Stoughton Norwegian Dancers ( has been firmed up and now we re looking to house them. They will be arriving late in the day on Tuesday, March 26 th and leaving early in the morning on Friday, March 29 th. The high school students will be performing a number of times during their visit stay tuned for details but the top order of business at this stage is to ensure that we have enough housing for them. The other lodge is housing about half the dancers and their adult chaperones. We need to find homes for 12 students and 4 or 5 chaperones. Hosting duties would include: *A place for an average three students and an adult chaperone to bed down for the night including bedding; the only restriction is that they not have to sleep on a hard floor. They can sleep on a floor if there is an air mattress, for instance. *Breakfast each morning. *Snacks in the evenings. (The entire entourage will eat together for lunch and dinner each day so hosts won t need to worry about providing those meals.) *A place to shower each morning/evening and towels. Each of the chaperones will have a van so there is no need for hosts to provide transportation to and from each day s events. If you are able and willing to accommodate this request, please let me know and let me know how many you can take. If you want to talk about it at the lodge meeting on Thursday night (Jan. 3) (Saga owner Gert Hvalsund from Norway will be speaking), I ll see you then, of course! Hilsen, Erik Pappa Vegas Viking Lodge President January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 1

2 More Scandinavian News: Local Scandinavians, I thought you d like to know about some of our upcoming events. There is no official lodge meeting in December but we are getting together nonetheless to Party Like a Viking THIS Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at the Blue Ox Tavern at 5825 W Sahara Ave, Ste A, Las Vegas, Nevada Everyone is invited; you don t have to be a member of the lodge. The bar has a lot of cool games and we always have a good time at this quarterly outing. Viking helmets optional. More event info on our Facebook page: Our lodge will meet again on Thursday, Jan. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church. Our presenter is Gert Kvalsund, a longtime local chef from Norway, will tell us about his latest venture: The opening of Saga Pastry + Sandwich at S Eastern Ave., Ste. 100 in Henderson, which is expected to open Dec. 14th, offering pastries and sandwiches with a Scandinavian flair, such as Nordic waffles, Swedish pancakes, cinnamon Buns, school buns, World's Best Cake, Arctic Coldwater Shrimp sandwiches, Norwegian smoked salmon sandwiches, baguettes, Scandinavian coffee, and some specialty beverages, such as Solo and lingonberry saft, Saga will also carry some Scandinavian sweets, jams and other sought-after Scandinavian products. Gert has lived in Las Vegas since 1995, and has worked as a chef locally at the Flamingo hotel and opening IKEA Las Vegas. He spent 8 years travelling the globe as a chef, working on every continent except for South America and Antarctica before deciding to open his own restaurant. Saga means story, so this restaurant will feature food that is part of Gert's story, from early childhood until modern day. The program gets underway at 7 p.m. We eat and socialize at 6:30 p.m. Our annual lutefisk dinner is Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Boulder City Elks Lodge. Please purchase tickets and join us at 3 or 6 p.m. and, of course, we always need volunteers to help out. Anyone wishing to purchase tickets should send a check, made out to the Sons of Norway, to Gwen Knighton, 2156 Marstons Mills Ct., Henderson, NV Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a note indicating the names of those attending, whether they are going at 3 or 6 p.m., and a telephone number. For information, call (702) Tickets must be purchased in advance and are not available at the door. (Please see the attached flier.) Also, we hope to be able to offer Norwegian language lessons starting in late January. A Norwegian living locally has expressed a willingness to do this and the details are yet to be worked out. But if you re interested, please let me know. Finally, if you re not already doing so, please follow us on Facebook: groups/ /. If you are on Twitter, you can find Hope to see you soon. Till then: God jul og godt nytt år! Med vennlig hilsen, Erik Pappa President Vegas Viking Lodge Sons of Norway January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 2

3 January/February Birthdays 1-9 Heidi Kasama 1-15 May Edmondson 1-25 Mike Hagan 2-1 Rory Raymond 2-1 Gregg LeDuc 2-2 Linda Kristensen 2-3 Suzan Siebert 2-3 Jerome Morse 2-9 Terri Anderson 2-9 Alice Salvesen 2-9 Gwendolyn Paisch 2-13 Judy Maland 2-13 Christian Schoyen 2-15 Onnie Singman 2-21 LadyHawk Freeman 2-22 Gwen Knighton 2-23 Annie Mathieson 2-25 David Jellum 2-28 Kathy Wilson Kalenderen PLEASE PUT THESE DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR: January 26 Lutefisk Dinner at the Elk s Lodge February 7 Membership meeting February 11 Mother s Day (Norway) February 14 Valentine s Day (US) March 7 Membership meeting April 4 Membership meeting May 17 - Syttende Mai Membership Meeting First Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM Christ Lutheran Church 111 N Torrey Pines Dr, Las Vegas NV Contact Us: - Webmistress Lollo Sievert (702) Newsletter information and submissions : vegasvikingsnewsletter@gmail.com Change of address or Karen Holien (702) Facebook : Vegas Viking Twitter: vegasvikinggang January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 3

4 Vegas Viking Lodge 6-152, Sons of Norway invites you to the Twenty First Annual LUTEFISK DINNER When: Saturday, January 26, 2019 Time: Two Seatings 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Cost: Adults are $22 AND Children (12 years and under) are $10 Where: Same location as previous celebrations Boulder City Elks Lodge # Boulder City Parkway, Boulder City On the Main Highway through town - just past McDonald s Restaurant Menu: Lutefisk w/melted butter or white sauce, roast pork, boiled potatoes, peas/carrots, lefse, Norwegian Cookies CASH BAR will be available and will stock Aquavit, of course! ADVANCE TICKET SALES ONLY - NO TICKETS AT THE DOOR!!! Tickets will be available at the January Lodge Meeting or You may send a check (written to Vegas Viking 6-152) to: Gwen Knighton, 2156 Marstons Mills Ct, Henderson NV Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for your tickets (Important - be sure to list names and indicate 3 p.m. or 6 p.m. seating! Please also include a telephone number - thanks) DEADLINE FOR TICKET PURCHASE: January 18, 2019!!! More Information? Call or night30@yahoo.com Check out Vegas Viking on Facebook or go to PLEASE NOTE WE WILL BE SELLING LEFSE for $10 a pack of ten. When you buy your tickets, indicate whether you want to buy lefse and how many. Gwen will make sure you have some. January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 4

5 Thought for the Month: Did you know that Norway introduced salmon sushi to the Japanese in the eighties. While sushi is absolutely a Japanese invention, they did not use salmon in the dish until it was suggested by a Norwegian delegation in 1980's. Despite the distance between the countries, Japan seemed a natural fit for Norwegian seafood. Japan's fish stocks were suffering from overfishing but demand from consumers was high. The deals created all those years ago have helped to boost Norwegian seafood exports. In Japan, Norwegian salmon sushi is one of the most popular dishes, especially among younger people. It took time to happen though, as the Japanese were originally concerned with the health impact of eating raw salmon. Members: We are in search of a new webmaster that would like to build a new website under the umbrella of the Sons of Norway. Interested parties please contact Lollo or Erik for more information. January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 5

6 Membership updates from Karen Holien: As many of you know, our international Sons of Norway has been promoting a membership drive to strengthen our organization. We are proud to announce that we have reached our local goal of 11 members in 2018! Our 3 newest members are Brian P. Christensen, Randolph "Troll" Winge and Gaylord Winge. Troll signed up at our Bazaar and also gave a gift membership to his father! We welcome each one of you and look forward to getting to know you all better. Several people have reached milestone memberships and will be presented with award pins at the next meeting. Heidi Kasama has reached 30 years, Signe Roden 25 years, and Lynelle Aanestad 20 years. Three members will also receive their 5 year pins: David Anderson, Gerri Grant and Cato Sandberg. We are proud of you all!!! January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 6

7 A Little Sunshine from Suzan Sunshine is needed for: * Holiday cards were sent to all members with health concerns. We trust everyone will have gotten over their health concerns by Marilyn Dille spent a few days in the hospital. Before the holidays. She is back at her apartment at Brookdale. She was out with her daughter on errands when Suzan took her Norwegian baked items. Some of the items were things she used to bake and we enjoyed them so very much over the years. Scholarship news: We recently got a nice update note from Kathryn Reed. Thanks to Lollo Sievert, she has updated our scholarship application deadline for 2019 on the Vegas Viking website. The Postmark deadline will be April 6, We usually don't put the application form out for 2019 until the New Year as we want the students current school record from Fall & Winter Encourage the youth you know to apply for our scholarship. Thanks to everyone who has donated to our scholarship fund. Karen Holien and Maureen Anderson have done many fund raisers for the scholarship fund. Thank you to Maureen Anderson for November s lovely raffle. It raised $128 for the scholarship fund! Boxtops are still being collected for Robert Taylor ES. In November we sent 77 and in December, we didn t send very many. Please bring in those that you collected from the holidays! Please ask your friends near and far to save for you. Thank you! Pull Tops: Thank you to all who are saving. I have taken donations of pull tops to Ronald McDonald House from Lodge members, Beta Sigma Phi members, and other friends. All the donations are appreciated as they assist their program to assist families of children in the hospital here. Thanks to everyone saving the plastic bottle caps from beverage containers. Bonnie McDaniel continues to collect the caps to assist the Veterans with their medical co pays. Jeanette Grove and I have collected huge donations from others during the past year and taken them to Bonnie. Remember: they can take plastic lids that screw on lids equals one co-pay for cancer patients. Thanks to all of you who continue to save the bottle caps! It is appreciated! If you know of someone who is in need of a little sunshine give me a call and leave a January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 7

8 District Six Sons of Norway distribution list moderators* needed! If you have a few minutes to spare, and can help on an ongoing basis... Please contact the District Six webmaster, Bruce Fihe. webmaster@sofn6.org This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND * Job description at: January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 8

9 Give the Gift of Heritage Christmas is when I really remember my Norwegian heritage. That was the time of the year we had lefse and meatballs that grandma Grangaard made. Of course there was lutefisk. We read the Christmas story every year. And I remember the gifts and Santa, but now as an adult I wish I had learned more about my heritage growing up. That my Norwegian heritage and culture was more than lefse and something we celebrated only at Christmastime. It would have been a great gift. Heritage is a very special gift to share with family and friends. Those of you reading this realize this because you are a Sons of Norway member. This year give the gift of a membership to Sons of Norway. It is very easy to do. You can do this online or call Sons of Norway ext and sign up a family member or a friend. Have a joyful holiday season. Luella Luella Grangaard District Six President January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 9

10 We sadly share the news of the loss of a dedicated lodge member: Ella Bernice (Bee) Belzone passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2018 at the age of 96. She was born in Minneapolis, MN and also lived in California before moving to Las Vegas in She worked as a secretary for Metro Police until retiring in Bee volunteered for many local organizations and was especially committed to the Vegas Vikings Sons of Norway. She was preceded in death by three sons, Jon Jarnberg, Burce Jarnberg and Carl Wm Jarnberg, Jr. As she wished her body has been donated to science. Memorials may be sent to Vegas Viking 6-152, c/o Andy Agan, Pine Glen Ave, Apt 206, Las Vegas, NV and specified for the scholarship fund. January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 10

11 Our annual Scandinavian Holiday Bazaar garnered a lot of foot traffic and the indications thus far are that it proved successful. Thanks to Terri Anderson for organizing it and ordering all the merchandise, Karen Holien for heading up the cookie-baking effort (and going on Fox 5 TV with Henny Morse and I to tout the event), Bob Sturgeon for getting up at 3 am to make the waffle batter and make the waffles on-site, and everyone else who was involved and supported this cool cultural event and important fundraiser for our lodge. January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 11

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17 Sons of Norway Vegas Viking Lodge Board Meeting, dated December 8, 2018 at Chef Fleming s Bake Shop, 7 S Water St, Ste B, Henderson, NV am In attendance: Erik Pappa, Karen Holien, Andy Agan, Gregg LeDuc, Warren & Elaine Halverson, Maureen Anderson, Terri Anderson, Gwen Knighton & Sally Eldredge. 1. Lutefisk Dinner 2019-January 26, 2019 in Boulder City. Gwen Knighton gave Erik Pappa her files for organizing the dinner. Erik will call Robert Sturgeon about getting Freddy to keep the kitchen clean at the Elk s Lodge the day of the dinner. Elaine Halvorson in charge of the dining room making coffee, tablecloths, centerpieces, and setting the tables for both seatings. Gwen Knighton in charge of Publicity/Tickets and ordering/selling Lefse. Rory Raymond and Julie Lee are in charge of Raffle. Karen Holien was asked to set up the sign up sheets for serving that day. Robert and Terri Anderson will pick up the fish from the airport on Wednesday, January 23. On Thursday, Jan 24, Robert, David & Terri Anderson will shop for the dinner. Jerry Morse will cook the pork loin. Maureen Anderson suggested Mike Archer might help cook the Lutefisk. This year at the dinner, the Lefse would be prepared ahead and placed on serving trays. Erik Pappa will make contacts for entertainment, instead of telling jokes the diners can t hear as they wait to go to the serving line! 2. Lodge Bylaws Gwen and Terri will get together in February, 2019 to celebrate their birthdays and revise the lodge bylaws to reflect the changes in the membership dues structure. 3. Stoughton Dancers from Stoughton, Wisconsin need housing when they perform in Las Vegas during the end of March, Contact Gregg LeDuc at , if you can help. 4. Syttende Mai (May 17) Picnic Committee is forming with the Desert Troll Lodge. Erik will ask Kathy Rothermel, Linda Turner, Lynelle Aanestad, Brian Christensen (new lodge member). Gregg volunteered to be on the committee also. For the silent auction at the picnic, we have two Norwegian sweaters and an intricate replica of a Viking ship. 5. Tusen Takk (1,000 thanks) Awards were discussed. Karen made a motion that we would purchase three $100 each. Maureen seconded the motion. Motion carried by unanimous vote. Awards would be presented at the 3 pm seating of the January 26 dinner. 6. The Blue Ox game night was well attended on Wednesday, Dec 5. During the evening Linda Turner suggested we make more lodge T-shirts. Erik will ask Linda to pursue this project. January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 17

18 Sons of Norway Vegas Viking Lodge Board Meeting, dated December 8, 2018 at Chef Fleming s Bake Shop, 7 S Water St, Ste B, Henderson, NV am 7. Colleen Wilson-Pappa will become the lodge webmaster. We are grateful to Lollo Sievert and her talents with technology! 8. The 2018 Bazaar earned over $1, for the general fund of the lodge. Terri Anderson did a great work for her first year of organizing the event. Improvements were discussed for The 2018 lodge Christmas party was a wonderful family activity! Gregg DeLuc did a great job organizing and leading the singing around the Christmas Tree! There was lots of food. Andy Agan performed his magic! The children seemed to enjoy their visit with Santa (David Anderson) near the tree. 10. Cultural Programs for Jan and Feb were shared. 11.Meeting was adjourned at 10:40 am! (Submitted by Terri Anderson, December 8, 2018) January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 18

19 Vegas Vikings Leadership Board of Directors President Erik Pappa, (702) Vice President Warren Halvorson, (702) Counselor Bob Sturgeon, (702) Secretary Terri Lynn Anderson, (702) Treasurer Andy Agan Jr, (702) Officers/Committee Chairs Financial Benefits Counselor: James Donovan (760) Cultural Director: Gregg LeDuc Membership Secretary: Karen Holien Webmistress: Lollo Sievert Social Director: Maureen Anderson Sports and Recreation Director: Doug Kittleson Foundation Director: VACANT Youth Director: VACANT Trustees: Lollo and Bob Sievert Greeter: David Anderson Publicity Director: Erik Pappa Marshal: David Anderson Historian: Rick Senzig Librarian: Linda Turner Editor: Tracy Barkhuff, Volunteer Coordinator: Linda Turner Audit Committee: Lollo and Bob Sievert Name Tags and Sunshine: Suzan Sibert Lutefisk Dinner Chairpersons: Gwen Knighton & Bob Sturgeon Camp Norge Ambassador: Arlon Sibert Scholarship: Linda Kristensen & Suzan Sibert January 2019 Vegas Vikings Lodge News page 19