LODGE NEWSLETTER September/september 2018

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Sons of Mission Statement Calendar of Events Sept 11 Board Meeting - 5:30 pm The mission of the Sons of Norway is to promote Lodge Meeting - 7:00 pm & preserve the heritage & culture of Norway, Union Central, D.L. to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic Sept 23 September Equinox countries, and to provide quality insurance and National financial products to its members. Potato Month!

Hei Alle Sammen! Fra Presidenten

Hei alle sammen!! (Hi all) Thanks to those who were able to samle (gather) at our pot Luck dinner in the park this past Tuesday. As always, the food was flott (great) and we did not go away sulten (hungry). At the board meeting, we heard the secretaries report and the treasurer’s rapportere (report). We are fortunate to have a good fond balanse (fund balance) and will be making some budgetary moves to provide more Membership Dinner is in October funding to the families who are in need. Who will you invite to join Vikingland Lodge? We have built up a projector fund and have tilstrekkelig (adequate) member and not just someone looking Enjoy the rest of August... September dollars to purchase a good one in the for a free meal. Latter, latter (Laugh, and the Fall Season is sniker opp near future. Hopefully, we will begin laugh). Our menu will be Pork Loin, (sneaking up) on us! to use it in September. Judy Fankhanel potatoes with gravy, salad and a desert. Velsignelser (Blessings) on your reise will be our guest presenter and she her Pam Skarie will once again be retained (journey) through life. presentation will be on her tur (trip) to to prepare the food. Billetter (Tickets) Joe Merseth, Presidenten Turkey to see her son. will be available at the September Lodge Our Membership Dinner is set for meeting, so bring your penger (cash) or October 9, at Trinity Lutheran Church. checkbook. Following the dinner, our The cost of the maltid (meal) will be the guest presenter will be Jim C. Sinclair, who will be making a presentation on Chiv same as last year... $15.00. If you bring ack ers a “prospective” member, their meal as fotografering (photography). Jim is well J LLC well as your meal will be gratis (free). known for his photography, especially of REALTY www.JackChiversRealty.com This should be a good “prospective” wildlife at the Tamarac Wildlife Refuge. 218-847-3112 Page 1 | Vikingland Lodge Newsletter follow us on facebook: facebook.com/sonsofnorwaydl

Membership Dinner is Battery-Powered Tourist HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Next Month Ships Launch in Lofoten *September/september 2018* 2 Alice Marie Hammer It is September, leaves will be starting Faye K Johnson to change color and our lives will once 4 Willard A Johnson again get back to more of a routine. I 6 Jacobia Lee Tyminski love fall! It is my favorite season. Our 7 Norman A Vareberg Membership Dinner will be in October. 9 Ardis L Hegna Dinner tickets will be available at our 13 Milan Dell Christianson September meeting. Dinner will include 14 Kathryn Ruth Larson pork loin, salad and dessert all for just 15 Mavis Jean Fjeld $15.00! Our program for the evening will 17 Casey A Bristlin be Jim Sinclair on his beautiful wildlife Gordon O Fevig and nature photography. Remember if 19 Margit R Bakke you bring a prospective member, you In Norway’s continued quest to 21 Cheryl R Olson and your guest receive complementary embrace renewable energy and 22 Duane Alan Olson dinners! Start thinking about who you environmental friendly transport, Roger Josephson can invite to join our Lodge! the “Brim Explorer”, a new battery- powered tourist ship that can hold up 24 Terry Lee Jacobson to 140 passengers will sail the Lofoten Curtis W Lundeen archipelago during the summer and 27 Tamara S Jensen provide whale watching from Tromsø 28 Lucas Hegna during the winter starting next year. 29 Clifford Duane Oftelie The ship can sail on batteries for 10 Leslie Raymond Anderson hours with a cruising speed of 10 knots. 30 Janice Eileen Lee Solskinn Hjørne The batteries can be charged over night - Sunshine Corner - at almost any shore power found in ports. If in need to sail longer distances Please send warm thoughts (varme at higher speed, the catamaran has a Make your own tanker) and prayers (bønner) this month diesel engine running on non-polluting Kransakake to Bob Hoover who is undergoing bio-fuel. Almond Cake for treatments for bladder cancer that has “A green footprint is an inevitable your Birthday! returned. part of future tourism in the Arctic,” Get the recipe at: If you know of someone who should says Agnes Árnadóttir, co-founder of www.sonsofnorwaydl.org/kransakake be added to our Solskinn Hjørne Green Wave Holding. (Sunshine Corner), please email Dorothy Agnes Árnadóttir says pollution-free Poffenberger at [email protected] or is not the only argument making battery- call 218-847-8288. power more favourable. “Another advantage is the increased comfort and Friendly Reminders... enhanced experience of the passengers and crew as they are able to enjoy the STAMPS: Remember to save the nature in silence.” stamps (leaving a quarter inch around On whale watching safaris, the ship the edges). Please bring these to can get much closer to the animals Dorothy Hoover. without disturbing them.

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Hasselback Roasted Happy National Potato Potatoes Month! (Hasselbackpoteter) Potatoes have been an important part of Norwegian cuisine and culture Find this recipe plus other potato for more than 250 years. They continue dishes in the Sons of Norway Recipe Box to be a staple ingredient in many at https://www.sofn.com/norwegian_ traditional dishes like dumplings, lompe culture/recipe_box/ lefse, hash and hasselback potatoes, but have also played a significant role in Ingredients Norway’s history. • 4 oval baking potatoes, medium The potato first originated in the • 1 Tbsp butter Andes in Latin America where it had • 2 Tbsp butter, melted exclusively grown for 10,000 years • Jarlsberg cheese, grated before the first Europeans arrived. • Paprika way through the potato.) Those early settlers then brought the Butter an oven-proof dish. Drain potato to Portugal in 1567, and with the Directions the potatoes and pat them dry with a help from European religious leaders Preheat oven to 425°F (215°C). paper towel. Place the potatoes side by potatoes eventually made their way to As you peel the potatoes, drop side, cut side up, in the dish brushed Norway in 1750. Priests and pastors, them into the cold water to prevent with butter. Brush the potatoes with commonly referred to as “potato discoloring. Slice the potatoes by melted butter and sprinkle with salt. If priests,” were known for growing placing a peeled potato in the hollow of needed, brush again with melted butter potato spuds on the grounds of their a large wooden spoon, and slice it in 1/8 after 30 minutes of baking. Bake for 50 inch (1/4 cm) slices ‘till about 1/2 inch minutes—about 5 minutes before they (1-1/4) cm) from the end. (The spoon are completely baked, sprinkle with prevents the knife from slicing all the grated cheese and paprika. Greetings from the Social Director Where has the summer gone? For was working there. Judy has many now the picnics in the park are over and wonderful pictures and stories to tell. parsonage at the time. They would we are back to our regular schedule, Bob and I along with Roger J. , often move from district to district and meeting at Union Central at 7pm. We will Carol T, Bonnie M. were delegates to teach people how to cultivate them on celebrate all of our summer birthdays, the District 1 convention in Rochester their own. back to our foundation drawings and and then Bob and I were delegates However, it wasn’t until the our door prizes. Back to our National to the International Convention in Napoleonic wars in the early nineteenth anthems, reading of the minutes etc. It Bloomington. we will give a brief report century when potatoes were fully is fun to do different activities and it is and then we have a wonderful surprise integrated into the Norwegian diet. The also good to get back to routine. to present. Something we can all be British navy blocked the seas around Judy Fankhanel will be presenting very excited and proud of. Norway. This eliminated grain imports our program. She spent three weeks Are you thinking ahead to our from and struck Norway in India with her son Marty, who Membership dinner in October? Who with famine. In desperate need of a will you ask as a potential member to replacement, Norwegians turned to join you? Tickets will be available at the potatoes, and quickly found them to September meeting for $15. Bonnie, not only be nutritious but also simple our VP is working hard making plans. to cook, inexpensive, filling and easily See her article for more information. grown in the harsh Norwegian climate See you in September, and at the and soil conditions. The humble potato Membership dinner October 9 has been a Norwegian favorite ever Dorothy Hoover, Social Director since.

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Address Tomorrow’s Life Insurance Needs Today Greetings from the Cultural Director We have all had that moment when of us know what tomorrow might bring. we get the news about either a friend Each September we bring the God Dag; Fall is the most beautiful or loved one whose life has just been importance of life insurance to time of the year. Falling leaves, Sweater changed forever by circumstances the forefront with the help of Life weather, school starting. What a time outside of their control. Whether due Happens coordination of Life Insurance to take a trip. Well here are 2 of the 7 to an accident or unforeseen most Stunning and Iconic things to do in illness, we don’t know when Norway: Norway is the type of country the need for life insurance that must be experienced once in a will occur. That’s why it’s so lifetime. 1. Old City of Bergen: Bergen necessary to plan ahead. Life is home to one of the most famous insurance might be one of the architectural sights of Norway. most important purchases Bryggen- dating back from the 14th you will ever make! century, they are some of the oldest According to the 2018 Insurance Barometer Study by Life Happens and LIMRA: Awareness Month. This campaign is • Among those with life insurance, aimed at helping educate the public about 1 in 5 say they do not have about the importance of life insurance, enough and how easy it is to do the right thing • Two in 5 millennials wish their spouse to protect their loved ones. If you or partner would buy more life already have life insurance, now is also insurance. a great time to talk to someone about • Almost everyone (90%) believes a ensuring you have enough coverage to and most colorful still standing slightly primary wage earner needs to own protect the hopes and dreams of your crooked buildings in the country. The life insurance. loved ones. fish market, the aquarium, and the fjord For many, life insurance should be Don’t wait until tomorrow; reach out panorama from Mount Floyen are also at the center of a financial plan. So why to your agent or call Sons of Norway at worth a stop in the old town. 2. Cruise are so many households uninsured 800.945.8851 so we can help you find in the Fjords: There is no such thing or underinsured? Some people are a Financial Benefits Counselor qualified as going to Norway and skipping the afraid to face the fact that we will to help you navigate your personal fjords. A cruise is the most simplest and all die someday. Others assume life insurance needs. You may also find most impressive way to marvel at these insurance is too expensive, or they put an agent at www.sonsofnorway.com. natural beauties, plus fewer crowds. off addressing the need, thinking it can Simply click on Financial Products > It’s just you and nature. Stay tuned for always be handled tomorrow. But none Find a Financial Benefits Counselor. more coming in the next installment. Need a recipe for some famous doughtnuts (this is how my grandma Share the Spirit of Looking for Leaders spelled them). Here is her recipe: Beat VELKOMMEN If you have a passion for 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp nutmeg and Please reach out this month to philanthropy and experience a dash of salt. Add 1 cup milk and someone in our community who in business, finance or fund 1 Tbsp cream. Gradually add 4 cups might enjoy the fun times and development, you may want to join flour or more (as needed), 4 tsp baking friendly folks at our Sons of Norway the Sons of Norway Foundation powder and lastly add 2 Tbsp melted lodge. Remember, daughters, sons Board of Governors. More details butter. Mix. Put on floured board and and anyone with an interest in Nordic available at www.sonofnorway.com/ roll out. Cut into doughnuts. Fry in hot culture and heritage are welcome to foundation. lard or Crisco Makes 36. Try them, my join Sons of Norway. Let’s make our Deadline is September 10. Apply grandma Borgny was awesome. Have community welcoming to all! today! a great Fall. Cindy Sauer

Page 4 | Vikingland Lodge Newsletter follow us on facebook: facebook.com/sonsofnorwaydl a little in English... They Moved Pulpit Rock to India In the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie, Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) is supposedly set in India. Nevertheless, it is good advertising for Norway, according to people in the tourism industry. Last fall, actor Tom Cruise came to Lysefjorden in . He was going to record scenes for his new “Mission: Impossible” movie on top of the mountain Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock). The superstar hangs from the edge Tom Cruise hangs from Pulpit of the famous for four dramatic Rock in “Mission Impossible” minutes. This was seen as a major victory for Norwegian tourism. However, figure out where the scenes are actually is how things go in the international director Christopher McQuarrie has recorded. blockbusters. It’s unlikely that such placed the Pulpit Rock in Kashmir, India. “Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) is almost a storyline would have happened [in This was a disappointment for many. as famous as the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Norway],” she told Dagbladet. The webpage minervanett.no was So I think that will not be a problem.” The Americans filmmakers received the first to write about the topic. Daily Hege Kjellevold is the general six million dollars to shoot the newspaper Dagbladet has talked with manager of the Preikestolen scenes in Norway. They received the Elisabeth Saupstad, a tourism director Foundation. She also doesn’t think it’s a money through a contribution by the in the office for Visit Norway, big problem that the action takes place Norwegian Film Institute. The subsidy the official Tourism Board in Norway. in India. will make Norwegian culture, history She says that the audience will quickly “We were prepared for this. That and nature more well-known. litt på norsk... Flyttet Preikestolen til India I den nye «Mission: Impossible»- Preikestolen i Kashmir i India. Det var mener det er noe stort problem at filmen er Preikestolen lagt til India. Det nok en skuffelse for mange. handlingen er lagt til India. er likevel god reklame for Norge, mener Det var nettstedet Minervanett som – Dette var vi forberedt på. Det er folk i reiselivet. først skrev om saken. Avisa Dagbladet slik det foregår i de internasjonale I fjor høst kom skuespilleren Tom har snakket med Elisabeth Saupstad. storfilmene. Det er usannsynlig at en Cruise til Lysefjorden i Rogaland. Han Hun er reiselivsdirektør i region slik historie skulle ha skjedd her, sier skulle spille inn scener fra sin nye Stavanger i Visit Norway. Hun sier at hun til Dagbladet. «Mission: Impossible»-film på fjellet publikum raskt vil finne ut hvor scenene Amerikanerne som lager filmen, Preikestolen. egentlig er spilt inn. fikk seks millioner kroner for å Superstjernen henger fra kanten – Preikestolen er nesten like kjent spille inn scenene i Norge. De fikk av det kjente fjellet i fire, dramatiske som Eiffeltårnet i Paris. Så det tror jeg pengene gjennom en ordning i Norsk minutter. Det ble sett på som en stor ikke blir noe problem. Filminstitutt. Ordningen skal gjøre norsk seier for norsk turisme. Men regissør Hege Kjellevold er daglig leder i kultur, historie og natur bedre kjent. Christopher McQuarrie har plassert Stiftelsen Preikestolen. Heller ikke hun

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