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October 2012 ISSUE 4 Midnight Sun V O L U M E 2 5 October 2012 Quarterly Magazine for the Scandinavian Club of Regina Growing up in Theme: Sweden Life in Sweden Of the 9.5 million people living in Sweden, 2 Members’ Matters 2, 5, 6 million are under the age of 18. Most of them President’s corner 3 take for granted the fact Editorial 5 that they can enjoy free schooling, an active Theme articles 1, 4, 7 social life, as well as Scandinavian News 3, 4 easy access to nature. Upcoming Events 8 Swedish law ensures that children are well protected and their rights are defended. In 1979, Sweden became Time Travel the first country in the by Britt Holmström world to make beating or spanking children a criminal offence. What to write about? Childhood memories? Summers on an endless beach? Dancing around majstången at Midsummer? All that sounds mythical now. In 1993, the Swedish I haven’t lived there for forty years. Government appointed an Ombudsman For My favorite memory is an evening sunbeam Children who is obliged more recent. When I travelling across the room to follow the 1989 visited Malmö a few towards the altar. As the United Nations years ago, I went to a Sonata reached the Convention on the cello recital at Caroli largo, the sunbeam Rights of the Child. Kyrka, a red brick church reached the baptismal Sweden was one of the in the center of the city, font and lit it up. It was a first countries to sign built in 1880. I went for special moment. I have up. two reasons. One: I like lived in Canada most of cello music. Two: my life, yet that baptismal Although I had never set font and I had a foot in the church, I had connection; I was been in it once before, baptized there. I felt a carried in that time, being sudden sense of only a few weeks old. It belonging, of still being felt peculiar sitting in that Swedish. Britt by a stone erected in memory church, everything made of women burnt as witches, subject I left the church, of painted wood; plain and of her latest novel. lightheaded, walked past Lutheran. Two students St. Petri Kyrka, where the from Musikhögskolan were playing row of trees stood laden with pink Chopin’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in clusters of flowers. I stopped, reached G Minor. Accompanying the music was (Continued on page 6) Read Midnight Sun online and get all the links! Members’ Matters more on pp. 5 & 6 The Annual SCoR Corn Roast Event We had great weather! There were 56 From the adults and 8 children attending and the corn was great, thanks to Kim and Jon SCoR Board Gillies who did an excellent job of giving every one more corn on the cob than they could consume. Lauren Membership Carlson assisted them with his many years of experience with cooking corn. on the Rise! Kelly and Greg manned the BBQ and Larry Bristol reports: many volunteers made it a very As of September 5th successful event. As convener of the SCoR membership event, my chores started up front but counts 167 active because of previous commitments I members. That is the had to leave early and left the clean-up highest since 1996! to Pearl, Tony and many other volunteers. Looking forward to NEXT YEAR. Do we hear 200? Larry New Phoners’ Coordinator Thank you, Guðrún! SCoR Cooking Class Carol Solberg is taking over as coordinator of the On behalf 20 students turned up at Ecole Phoning Tree after of the entire Monseigneur de Laval for the first night Guðrún Jónsson club, I of Scandinavian Cooking Classes would like arranged by SCoR in cooperation with to thank Hillsdale Community Association. Cookbook! Guðrún Coordinator Greg Swanson has done a Jónsson for great job getting this together: working Christmas present her idea: with HSA, finding teachers, shopping dedicated for the cooking. Kim is working steadily service. on the club’s new Guðrún has First night was Norwegian Cooking cookbook — and it is served as with teacher Kari Mitchell. Next time expected to be out by the phoning Greg will teach Icelandic Cooking. December 1st. The committee ideal present this coordinator for six years and has been Hmm, what do we do with this herring? Christmas for any instrumental in every event the club Scandinavian cook! has hosted. This is a huge job and Guðrún has done it exceptionally well. She has recently stepped down and Look for Mosaic has passed the responsibility to Carol updates on our Solberg. So again, thank you Guðrún website! for all you do! Kim 2 SCoR Website http://www.scandinavianclubregina.com/ Would you like to be working with the SCoR preparations for MOSAIC 2013? Contact John Edwardson at 584-2246 or Kim Gillies at 531-9794. home for the weekend. President’s Corner But a few hours later the couple decided they wanted to go see a I’ve been a part of the Scandinavian Club of Regina movie. ”Dad called for a little over six years and it’s amazing to see it around six or seven and grow. I was welcomed into the club with open hearts heard that my girlfriend and I see that warmth continuing. The Executive and and I would go see 'The I have been working on laying the foundation for the Mozart Brothers'. Then possibility of our club re-joining Regina’s Mosaic he said they might want Festival. The club used to take part many years ago. to see that too," said I have heard wonderful stories of the good times and Mårten Palme, another of memories it created for our club, we are working to Palme's sons. give the next generation the opportunity to have the same experiences. As they were walking home down Sveavägen On the flip side; I have heard some club members in central Stockholm, a say it’s too much work to be in Mosaic, and I gunman approached Olof understand why that is. It’s a lot of work to host a Palme and his wife and successful pavilion. We are currently working hard shot the Prime Minister to create a plan that will make re-joining Mosaic this endeavor, so please join dead. The assassination manageable for the club. Having said that; we do us to discuss where the club remains unsolved and need to know if this is what the club wants to do. will go from here. The Mosaic continues to haunt I think joining Mosaic is a wonderful way to celebrate committee will have a Swedes more than our unique culture and tradition. Our club is presentation on the twenty five years later. multifaceted with our language classes, cooking organization of the pavilion, According to classes, not to mention traditional events. We have a answer any questions, there Mårten, the system in lot to offer and showcasing our club at Mosaic will will be a general discussion place for protecting his show Regina just that. followed but a vote on if the father was less than satisfactory. "It was pretty At the last Annual General Meeting we decided to Scandinavian Club of Regina poorly organized. The hold a Special GM to discuss Mosaic and see if there will enter Mosaic or not. I bodyguards were okay, is enough club interest to make a pavilion feasible. I hope to see you all there. but it was a complicated encourage everyone to come out to this meeting on system," he said. November 21st, to make your opinion known. We Kim Gillies really need to know how the club members feel about Olof Palme Wanted Protection "On the night of the interviews that her husband didn't want murder, he actually to have bodyguards that night, but tried to call, but it Joakim Palme recalled things differently. didn't work. He "That was information she provided very couldn't get ahold of early in the murder investigation, but the Olof Palme anyone," Olof Palme’s son Joakim told reason why he didn't get in touch with talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in an them? That I don't know. He may have episode broadcast on Swedish had the wrong number; there was The number of people Television in late September. However, something that just made a clicking who ”like” us on information about the alleged call wasn't sound." Facebook is growing. included in the investigation, according to On the afternoon of February 28th, 1986, Join them! a lead investigator on the case. Olof Palme and his wife had been driven According to the Expressen newspaper, home by police guards, at which point Lisbeth Palme confirmed during Palme told the security guards to go http://www.facebook.com/scandinavianclubregina 3 Re-immigrating to Sweden by Ida LeRuyet, Midnight Sun editor 2007-2010 during that extra time of 15-30 minutes where the guests would slowly trail in one by one. Best Another noticeable difference is the Director at level of bureaucratic connectedness in Montreal Festival each country. Strangely enough I was bothered both times I moved to a new Swedish director Jan place. In Canada it seemed nothing Troell won the award for was connected, not even government bodies, so if you moved you had to tell Best Director with his film every single organization about your The Last Sentence (Dom address change. I almost had a fear of över död man) at the getting lost in the system. In Sweden World Film Festival in everything is centralized which I have Montreal.
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