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ISSUE Upcoming Events 03 Midnight Sun JUNE Scandinavian Club of Regina Newsletter Midsummer Fest – Picnic & Camping 2 0 0 9 Picnic on June 14th at the Willow Island at 2 p.m.; cost is $7.50 per person, payable to the club that day. There is no longer a fee to ride the ferry. Bring lawn chairs, games, etc. this issue New Camping on June 20th at Buffalo Pound Provincial Park at 5 p.m. Get your New Family Editorial P.1 Passing own campsite; bring your own gear, food and beverages. It is the summer Group Member News P.1,5 solstice and we will be taking advantage of it with a night filled with social activities Perry Thompson of Scandinavian Myths & Traditions P.2-3 & fun. Contact Ida at [email protected] if you are interested and need more It is with pleasure we Strasbourg, SK, Member Portrait P.4-5 details. are announcing our passed away on new SCoR’s Family Scandinavia News P.6-7 March 22, 2009. Corn Roast Group. Greta Lange Upcoming Events P.8 Perry and his wife Sunday August 30th at Candy Cane park in Wascana Centre, at 2 p.m.. Bring has volunteered as an Leona are charter Lawn chairs; Cost is $6.00 per person activity coordinator of members of the this group and she will Scandinavian Club Letter from the Board: the future of our club? Fowl Supper become a great asset of Regina. This letter is from the present executive for some years. We also ask if you Sunday October 25th at Luther College, at 6:00 p.m.; Jon Jonsson will be the in the process of of the Scandinavian Club of Regina to might know of other people of guest speaker. Details to follow. recruiting young The club board, on let you know their thoughts about Scandinavian descent or members of families with children. behalf of all Christmas Party declining memberships. your family who would consider again members, sends If you are interested joining the club to keep it a thriving club Sunday December 13th at St Mark's Lutheran (tentative) The executive is somewhat concerned condolences to the and need more as it was many years ago when our in regard to the present membership in family of Perry information please membership was well into the hundreds. our club. As you may note, we are Thompson. contact Greta by concerned about the declining As you know, we have not taken part in phone at 543-6144 or membership which is 99 members at Mosaic since 1996. You might be Midnight Sun Issue 03 June 2009 at this moment. Many have not renewed aware this event was a significant gretaelange@hotmail. their memberships for 2009. What are source of our income which kept our com the causes for this decline in club going. For the last 13 years, we Call for E-mail membership over the last few years? have not had a major fund raising event. There are probably many reasons for While we still have money in the bank For any questions or further information regarding this addresses! this through age, illness, deaths and from past participation in Mosaic, our newsletter please contact Ida LeRuyet at 757-7708 or other reasons that continue to perplex bank balance continues to decline. [email protected] Sign up with your the executive as to how to keep present email address and So we urge you to renew your members and at the same time indicate what you membership; and if you have been SCANDINAVIAN CLUB OF REGINA increase our membership. We know P.O. Box 37182, Regina, SK S4S 7K4 interested in inactive and not been a member for that many of our families sometimes do receiving. This will some time, then we ask you to rejoin not live in our area or are busy. become our new and recruit new members to join our prime communication If membership continues to decline over club and to ask your adult children, your tool and we want you the next few years, there is a danger of grandchildren, friends, etc. to consider a on board: Email our club ceasing to exist. We urge you membership to keep our club going in [email protected] to contact past members whom you the future . might know who have not been active aSDF Tell Your Story Scandinavian Myths & Traditions We want to hear your Henceforth, each 'Midnight Sun' quarterly issue will feature a special topic – related to story about your origin Scandinavian mythology or traditions. A tradition is the process of preserving orally, The World of cultural heritage, and/or a belief while a myth, by definition, can be given any of the Science At the next indoor following interpretations (found in YourDictionary.com): The Scientific event, Fowl Supper, 1. a traditional story of unknown authorship, with a historical basis, usually to American Magazine the SCoR is planning explain some phenomenon of nature, the origin of man, or the customs, has released its top to host an information institutions, religious rites, etc. of a people ten global leaders in booth to promote 2. such stories collectively; mythology biotechnology. Scandinavian culture, tourism & history. We 3. any fictitious story, or unscientific account, theory, belief, etc. Demark, Finland, want you to help us. Iceland, and Sweden 4. any imaginary person or thing spoken of as though existing Bring anything you The Eurovision Song Contest This year's finals took place in were all in the top ten. It is obvious that our origins are in a part of the world filled with a multitude of traditions, Moscow on the 16th of May, This ranking considers think might interest the is an annual pop music Nordic country winners: myth and folklore. This provides a fairly wide range of possibilities for subjects in our rest of the members. competition, held since 1957 Sweden and the victory by Norwegian areas such as newsletter and we call on our readers to contribute with suggestions for future (season 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999 Alexander Rybak came as a intellectual property, among the members of the related) topics!. intensity, enterprise Talk to John European Broadcasting Union nice prelude to the 17th of Edwardson to bring – However – here goes Myth: (EBU), and it's huge! Each Norway May celebrations. (Alexander support, education, was born in Belarus and workforce and forward any of your Primstav – A Calendar Myth? member country submits a 1985, 1995, 2009 Perpetual calendars like the primstav – calendar stick – were found in many ideas of how we can song to be performed on live speaks fluent Russian.) foundation dropout. share our own stories European countries before printed calendars came into general use. In the Denmark This is a great feat television and then votes are Nordic countries, mainly in Denmark, Sweden (referred to as “runstav”) and which shows how with others. cast determine which is the 1963, 2000 Those 'Midnight Sun' readers Norway, they were probably known as far back as 1000 A.D. and were year's most popular song in with internet access can see Scandinavian primarily to help farmers keep track of when it was time to sow or harvest to Finland and listen to the winning song countries continue to New Book, the competition. Check it out avoid frost on their crops. Movie & Music online here: 2006 on You Tube here: be on the cutting edge Club With the introduction of Christianity the calendar stick became even more http://www.eurovision.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/watc of technology. useful in people's more complicated task of keeping track of all religious feast h?v=uiH4BFTELME The club will be days. In Norway the primstav is known to have been in use well into the 19th featuring century. Other Nordic calendar sticks will have looked very much the same, Who is Ida? Not What You Thought...? Scandinavian but they would differ somewhat in symbols. On the primstav/runstav, every produced books, day is represented with a carved notch, and all the church feasts or other 're- We all think we know Ida – our very own own. Palaeontologist Jørn Hurum has music and movies. letter day' have their own symbols carved into the stick 'Midnight Sun' editor and valued member acquired Ida for the University of Oslo Get togethers will be of the Scandinavian Club of Regina, Natural History Museum, and a team of The summer side – sommerside – of the Norwegian primstav covered April organized where club Right! But then there is the new Ida. Or scientists finally has got the opportunity 14th (sommermålsdag – First Day of Summer) to 13th of October. There are members can enjoy rather the old Ida. Very, very old Ida! to examine this ancient fossil. many important symbols during those six months such as Barsok, Summer our Scandinavian Solstice and Olsok. Ida is the most complete early primate 'Midnight Sun' readers with internet artistic culture. fossil ever found, recovered from the access can read all about Ida at More information will Olsok (St.Olav's Day) on July 29th was the most important religious Messel Pit in Germany by Norwegian http://revealingthelink.com/ and among follow in the next feast in the Catholic church of the Nordic countries in Medieval times, archeologists. Scientists believe that she other things, Sir David Attenborough's newsletter. Contact commemorating Saint Olav, the Norwegian king who fell in the battle of could be one of our earliest ancestors. enthusiastic comments on 'the Missing Stiklestad (Trøndelag) in A.D. 1030. Kari at: She lived 47 million years ago, and her Link' now discovered.