Swedish Club News

Vol. 56, Issue 8: August 2017 Swedish Club . Seattle . Washington A home for the Nordic-American community Finnish Your Dinner inns around the world are Fdoing it on this weekend, and so are we. To celebrate 100 years of Finnish independence, we’re Our Mission participating in the invitation to dine To promote better understanding under the sky on Friday, Aug. 25. It’s between the United States and appropriate! Nordic people are ardent outdoor eaters, and will use the Nordic countries, with any brief bit of sun as an excuse to emphasis on Sweden, and to join the pleasure of being outside perpetuate Nordic culture with the enjoyment of eating. and traditions through the We will lay out long dinner teaching, observance, practice tables in front of our building, and celebration of this culture deck them with white tablecloths and its traditions. and serve delicious Finnish food. We’ll toast Finland’s centennial of independence from Russia while we enjoy the delicious food Menu prepared by Chef Christine Lea. The theme for Finnish Your Dinner • Aug. 25, 2017 Finland’s year of celebrations is “Together,” demon- 6:30 p.m. strating that Finns and friends of Finns are welcome to take part. The cost is $28 and we must have your Whitefish with roe, sour cream and reservation by Tuesday, Aug. 22. malted bread Our “Finnish Your Dinner” celebration on The whitefish is prepared using the gravlax Friday, Aug. 25, will take the place of the regular hot method with sugar, salt, dill, Finnish gin and dinner served in our dining room during Happy Hour, so we hope you’ll join in. crushed juniper berries, and then sliced thin. The Years of Being Nordic! Warm mushroom salad candinavians have been moving into our area for Bibb and rocket lettuce sprinkled with a light Saround 150 years. The 1880 census counted 190 vinaigrette and topped with a variety of Scandinavians in Seattle—but by 1892, there were warm sautéed mushrooms and fresh lingon- enough Swedes to start the Swedish Club. Scandina- berries. vian or Nordic cooperation began way back then, with Seattle residents showing more genteel Pickled fried herring behavior to each other than they might have Cabbage rolls with beef, onions and demonstrated back home. After all, citizens of spices Norway were willing to go to war against Sweden in 1905 to get their independence! But here in Åland baked pancake topped with Seattle, Scandinavians joined others in planning the summer jam and whipped cream Cont. on p. 4

www.swedishclubnw.org Swedish Club Club Notes 1920 Dexter Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 enjamin Franklin might well have amended current prices. Thanks to our “Beer for a Year” his famous quote about death and taxes to offer, $300 a year buys you a personalized beer 206-283-1090 Club Business B 206-283-1078 Rentals remind us that “in this world nothing can be said mug and a prepaid beer whenever the bar is 206-283-2970 FAX to be certain, except death, taxes and inflation.” open to members. If you prefer fruit of the vine, [email protected] After years of consistent drink prices at our bar, $100 a year buys you a personalized wineglass, [email protected] the Swedish Club is which you may fill with a [email protected] www.swedishclubnw.org raising prices across the large pour for $5, again Office Hours board by $1 per drink. anytime the bar is open to Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. As a Swedish Club members. Board of Directors employee since 2009 and Lunch and dinner President Gary Sund Past President Paul Heneghan your Executive Director prices will increase too, Vice President Janice Bogren since 2011, I can assure but the amount depends Secretary Vi Reno Treasurer Judith Peterick you that drink prices have on the food item. Since Directors: Patrick Dolan, Mary Emerson, not gone up as long as food prepared but not Mary Hillman, Monica Grafstrom Hinckley, Chris Jones, Larry Omdal, Don Wahlquist I’ve been here. But I can also assure you that the sold loses money for us, we’ll cut back slightly Swedish Club Foundation prices we pay for liquor have indeed risen in that on the number of dinners prepared. (Please feel President Bob Blair time period. Which leads me to two pieces of free to call ahead and pay for your Friday dinner VP/Treasurer Leif Eie Secretary Berit Lehner good news about higher drink prices. so that it will be waiting for you.) We invite you Club Operations The first is that we serve our members and to come eat and drink—and raise a glass to the Executive Director Kristine Leander the Club, and raising prices means we are taking financial stability of the Swedish Club! Skål! Rentals/Facil. Mgr. Doug Newlands Office/Vol. Coord. Eva Larson good fiduciary care of the Club. The second Event Coord. Britt Erika Leggett piece of good news is that our beer mug and Kristine Leander, Executive Director Rentals Coord. Court Potter Staff Accountant Sue Johnson wineglass opportunities will remain at their [email protected] Nominating Committee Chair Jan Sullivan Club Historian Aina Oscarsson President’s Message Swedish Club Guild Vice President Carol Graves ran across some photos from our recent trip House in Stockholm. When people are intro- Secretary Jan Sullivan Treasurer Alana Brandstrom Ito Sweden, and began to reminisce about our duced at this affair, they’re obliged to walk Parliamentarian Jean Wirch experiences. There was Stockholm’s Old Town down a grand staircase extending into the hall, Swedish Singers of Seattle with its cobblestone streets (wear good shoes with no railing and a very open feeling. You Swedish Women’s Chorus & Svea Male Chorus to save your ankles and feet) and many plazas. must walk down the stairs looking straight [email protected] For an old water engineer like me, the commu- ahead, and if you are smart, you practice before swedishsingersofseattle.org nity wells located in each plaza were really the event. Former First Lady Michelle Obama Swedish Club News Editor: Kristine Leander cool. The changing of the guards and the Vasa stated that this was one of the scariest things Copy Editor: Martin Stillion Museum were terrific. she had ever done.

Swedish Club News (USPS 533-750) After several days in Stockholm, we drove Heading south along the eastern seaboard is published monthly as part of south to Oland, where my mother’s parents (the on one of the last legs of our road trip, we yearly membership dues at $15 per Petersons) came from, north to Leksand where stayed in Enanger at a great little B&B named person, per year, by the Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, the Sunds came from and further north to the after the town. It was an idyllic setting next to WA 98109-2795. Telephone is mountains. Then it was east to the sea and back a babbling stream. The couple who ran the B&B 206-283-1090. Periodicals post- age paid at Seattle, Washington. down to Stockholm. The backbone of the trip were so excited to have us there, and so Postmaster: send address changes consisted of family history; major sites such as friendly that we hated to leave. Over breakfast to Swedish Club News, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109-2795. Carl Larsson’s house and garden in Sundborn; the we asked about surstromming, a type of Deadline for material for the mountains and the making of dalas—but when I fermented Baltic herring with an odor some- next issue is Aug. 15. reminisce, what comes to mind is the people, the times compared to the smell of eggs rotting in Bring articles into the office or fax to 206-283-2970. You may also stories and the everyday experiences. open sewage drains. Our hosts used to own the e-mail articles to The dinner event where the Nobel prizes store in town that sells tins of this stuff, but [email protected]. are handed out occurs at the Government they said we wouldn’t be allowed to take it on

2 august 2017 a plane. The tins are prone to exploding, and In the north, following the many lonely the longer they sit around, the more likely roads (ours was the only car around for long SC Announces this is to happen. So on their advice we did periods of time), we did not see a single News about, or in the interest not buy any. But I will always wonder how moose. But we did run into reindeer, almost of our members... bad the smell is. Maybe someday… literally. I still chuckle when I think of The Swedish Club announces 1,219 Our hosts also told us about the centu- following a loose-limbed reindeer trotting in member households, including 82 ries-old church across the road. They urged us front of us down the middle of the road. Lifetime members and 142 Social to walk up past the new church to They are ungainly, yet beautiful. members. Our members’ names the pastor’s house, where a key There are too many sights and appear in boldface in Swedish Club News. hanging outside near the door would experiences to mention here. allow us entry to the old church. It Perhaps I’ll share more of them in a New Members turned out to be a skeleton key future message. I totally recom- Kenan Block about 18 inches long and weighing at mend renting a car and driving Maureen & Jonas Boli least 10 pounds. It took three turns through the country—but not in Cyndi Haggren Cahill, Hailey, Carly of the key to open the door. Inside Stockholm, where the streets are a and Alli Cahill was fabulous. The 2-inch-thick board bit intimidating. The major towns Dulce Carrillo & Scott Woltman, steps leading to the choir loft were have great public transportation Isabelle Brady worn almost through from years of systems. With GPS to guide you Richard Charm use. It was truly a privilege to sit in the and Hotels.com to get a room, you can make Mary Ann Ekman sanctuary where people had sat over the years your way. Overall it was a wonderful trip with Megan Gardner in this little country church, looking at the many wonderful sights, but it is the still the Julie Gerrard impressive stained-glass windows. people we met, the little things we discovered Deborah Halver-Hanson* I remember driving past red houses with each day, the stories we heard, that made the Ester Margareta Hart* white trim located in bucolic green valleys trip remarkable. Tommy Jezierny* with rivers running through them, feeding the Edward & Linda Kandler many lakes. We were surprised at the number Gary Sund Andrew Larson of horses we saw on farms. [email protected] Debi & Lars Lindgren, Linnea and Daniel Lindgren members to meet Hartsuyker Swedes Read Margarita Mills and enjoy the music. The Half-Drowned The Half-Drowned King Katie Worthman & Pete Lundberg King pieces together actual events in Kate Zylland By Linnea Hartsuyker Viking Norway with sweeping *Social member id Vikings read? We fiction. Through various Dknow they did, adventures, the young hero, Corporate Members because they carved Ragnvald Eysteinsson, eventu- Dwyla Donohue Enterprises, Inc. runestones. But it’s not ally joins King Harald Fairhair, Rainier Title likely that they had while his headstrong sister, Seattle Counselors Association books—after all, the larger Svanhild, fights for her worth Pancake Guests of Denmark’s famous Jelling and autonomy in Viking June 4: 780 stones weighs 10 tons, so a society. If you enjoy History book of them would be Channel’s “Vikings,” Game of New address? Send your address somewhat impractical. Thrones or The Name of the Wind, you’re changes or corrections to Swedish Nonetheless, today’s Vikings will gather at sure to enjoy The Half-Drowned King. Club, Attn.: Address Change, 1920 University Book Store in Mill Creek to celebrate And if you’re not planning to come to Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109. a new book, The Half-Drowned King by Linnea the Swedish Club on Friday evening, Aug. 25, Hartsuyker. The party, with music by local you are invited to enjoy the party at the Or you can e-mail to fiddlers Martha Levenson and Vicki Watt University Book Store, Mill Creek Town [email protected]. Warshaw, will be Friday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m., with Center, 15312 Main St., Mill Creek. You can Let us know if we left out your the author introduction at 7 p.m. The store has also call to reserve a signed copy to pick up information by mistake. issued a special invitation to Swedish Club later: 1-866-341-READ. www.swedishclubnw.org 3 YearS of Being Nordic Cont. from p. 1 The idea of a central calendar came up first, followed by ideas for Alaska Yukon Pacific (AYP) Exposition, which opened in 1909. The sharing what works for each group—sort of a “best practices” seminar same year, the Scandinavian Department at the University of for Nordic clubs, along with training in promotion and the creation of a Washington was founded. resource list for the Nordic community. In particular, participants look Fast forward to the late 1950s, when the Nordic community forward to the planned activities for the opening of the new Nordic raised funds for a statue of Leif Erikson. The primary goal of the Museum in May. The Museum’s representatives at the meeting were Leif Erikson League, formed in 1957, was to unite Scandinavian enthusiastic that their events will “lift all boats.” societies in the Seattle area. They unveiled the statue at the 1962 Attendees agreed that their groups would be interested in Seattle World’s Fair. That supporting a local Nordic summer, various Nordic Council to coordinate clubs began coming activities, build synergy together annually to host a between clubs and weeklong summertime develop community Nordic Festival in Seattle. among Nordic-American By 1978, the group had individuals in the area. held a meeting to “estab- One subgroup has already lish a cultural center started to work on the where Scandinavian central calendar idea. Stay artifacts may be assembled tuned to learn about this and displayed before they new-but-old idea of a are lost, and working local Nordic Council. To together, we surely will be make sure your group is able to accomplish this.” included, e-mail kristine@ This, of course, resulted in Nordic Festival 1964. Seattle had a weeklong Nordic Festival from swedishclubnw.org. the Nordic Heritage approximately 1962 to 1978. A Nordic Queen reigned over the activities. A joint effort of all Nordic cultural groups in Seattle led to the founding To quote one of the Museum, which opened at of the Nordic Heritage Museum. Planning meetings were held at the original letters written in its Webster School Swedish Club. 1978 in support of location in 1980. establishing the Nordic From that point until now, various meetings and calendar Heritage Museum: “and working together, we surely will be able to committees have come together with representatives of the various accomplish this.” Nordic groups to support each other and establish a central calendar. One monthly calendar, NW Nordics, was printed and distributed Well Done, Donors! from 2001 till 2009, but for the most part, none of those efforts People give to the Swedish Club for all kinds of reasons. Here’s a list had sustained success. of who donated recently and why. There’s room for you on this Today the Northwest has an amazingly dynamic culture of list—call 206-283-1090 to learn more. Nordic organizations and events, and the descendants of Nordic immigrants are exceptionally proud of their heritage. New Nordic In memory of Bengt Hag: Alice Anderson; Tina Aure; immigrants are often surprised at just how Swedish, or Norwegian Bruce Bare & Bonnie Taylor; Jan Broz; Ellen Duernberger; or Icelandic, for example, we are here in the Northwest. And David & Brita Enfield; Lars Folkesson; Jennifer Garone; sometimes a good idea needs only the right timing. Lena Hauser; Dan & Irene Hunter; C.C.C. Johnson; Ronald A group of 23 individuals came together at the Swedish Club on Karjala; Janet Novotny; Donna & Don Osborne; Janet Saturday, July 22, to discuss the opportunities for collaboration and Overton-Tofting; Lola Gracey Peterson; Craig Rhodes; promotion within the Nordic community. For ample proof that such Beverley Sperry cooperation is a hallmark of Nordic culture, just look at who showed up. There were individuals from the following groups: Edmonds Lodge What’s Up with the Building? Sons of Norway, Finlandia Foundation, Leif Erikson International his report updates our members on projects around the building. Foundation, Leif Erikson Lodge Sons of Norway, Nordic Heritage TYou can donate for specific projects, which would surely speed up Museum, Normanna Male Chorus of Tacoma, Northwest Danish our progress! Association, Norwegian Male Chorus of Seattle, Seattle-Bergen Sister • Fountain in front of the building: The southern end of the fountain’s City Association, Swedish Club, Swedish Singers of Seattle and the foundation has slightly sunk. The fountain is meant to recycle its Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce. Reporter Scott Larsen also water, but the slanting foundation results in water splashing out into came down from New Westminster, B.C. the garden, running up our water bill. Members: If you were

4 august 2017 Rehearsals Resume! By Marta Schee

he Swedish Singers of Seattle will start up their Trehearsals beginning Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 6:30–8 p.m. for the men, and 7:30–9 p.m. for the women. Why the early start? We’ll sing at a Seattle festival of choirs at Seattle First Baptist Church on Oct. 12, so we’re starting early to prepare our very best for this wonderful event. Other performances to look forward to this season: • Nov. 4—Singing at a celebration of 100 years of Finnish statehood, held at Benaroya Hall Swedish Singers President Marta Schee, right, talks to chorus members • Nov. 18—Our annual afternoon concert for about upcoming events. Yulefest at the Nordic Heritage Museum • Dec. 5—A Scandinavian Christmas festival with other area heritage choirs at Phinney Lutheran Church • May 2018—The grand opening of the new Nordic Museum on Market Street The choir is warm and welcoming—no auditions, no need to be Swedish or speak Swedish, just a love of Scandinavian culture and singing. Join us! Always fresh coffee and a friendly smile. around in 1976 when it was built, do you remember if rebar is holding the fountain Members & Friends and its foundation together? The concrete repair company we contacted to straighten up the fountain reported that they can’t guarantee results without first Dinner knowing how it was built. uick trivia question: • Stockholm Hall floor refinishing: Our dancers asked for it and we’ve done it. QWhat does the Swedish The work will be completed by the time Swedish Club News arrives in word frågesport mean? Why, your mailbox. it means trivial pursuit! Or, • Lobby kitchen: Done! Members, please come by and admire it. to be literal, the sport of • Entrance doors on Dexter: Still waiting for finishing details. questions. It’s our Members & • Butler’s kitchen off the dining room: This is the small pass-through area Friends Dinner for Aug. 9. So that in the northwest corner of the Three Crowns dining room on the everyone can participate, our game top floor. Funded to $12,000 by the annual auction. The Building won’t be in Swedish, but it will be & Facilities Committee will consider three possible designs to about Sweden. We’ll have Swedish-related make this usable as a small extra kitchen for our Friday chefs. prizes too. An enjoyable evening for Swedo- • Elevator remodel: Contract signed, proposed start date early philes like us. September. Members, note that we will be without an elevator Chef Ann-Margret Lightle will serve for many weeks during this process. We will hold as many pork tenderloin with fig marmalade and feta events as possible on the two lower levels. • Ground floor entrance (Bengt’s doors): Donations were cheese, mushroom sauce, potatoes and requested in honor of Bengt Hag, to improve the area vegetables, with chocolate cream pie for outside the doors. Plans are under way to replace the dessert. Want to study ahead of the planter with benches and large pots. evening? Review your Swedish recipe • Air conditioning: Under consideration by the Building & books, see as many Swedish films as you Facilities Committee and the Board. can, memorize the map of Sweden and • Bathroom remodels: Plans are being considered. We’ll maybe you’ll have a leg up. Or maybe probably have to choose between air conditioning and not. Come and find out. Remember, we new bathrooms; it isn’t feasible to provide both in the need your RSVP by 12 noon on Tuesday, foreseeable future. Aug. 8. The cost is $20, unless you RSVP late— • Property development: Still visioning. then it’s $25. www.swedishclubnw.org 5 Coming Events at the Swedish Club Fridays through Sept. 29. “Call the Midwife.” Wednesday, Aug. 16. We’re watching “the number one show on TV” from the start of the Craft Night in the Bar. series. Season 1 starts with colorful stories of midwifery and families The third Wednesday evening of every month is the craft session at in London’s East End in 1957. Free. 5:30 p.m. the Swedish Club. Pea soup starts at 5, crafts anytime. Wednesday, Aug. 2. Trivia. Wednesday, Aug. 16. Members and guests are welcome. Every first Wednesday of the English-language Film. month, come enjoy Trivia. Enjoy pea soup and homemade limpa A Thousand Times Goodnight. Norwegian-Irish film about a female bread. Food at around 5, Trivia at 7 p.m. photojournalist obsessed with reporting in dangerous war zones. 117 Friday, Aug. 4. min. 7:30 p.m. $5 donation. Happy Hour with Knut Erik Jensen and Skogen Sällström. Wednesday, Aug. 23. Kafferep. The Trondheim-based musical duo (Knut Erik on keyboards; Skogen Monthly Swedish-style coffee party with homemade goodies from on violin and Hardanger fiddle) bring their talents back to the our best baking members. 2 p.m. You’re very welcome. Swedish Club. Everything from Grieg to folk music, rendered with breathtaking skill. These musicians are the sort you remember Wednesday, Aug. 23. hearing the rest of your life. Free; tips encouraged. 7 p.m. GRATIS ärtsoppa och dricka! Sunday, Aug. 6. Swedish Pancakes. Bring a friend! On Wednesday evenings we serve pea soup in the bar. Just for tonight, if you come and bring a friend who’s never Music and dancing, plus authentic Swedish pancakes, lingonberries, been a member of the Swedish Club, we’ll buy your friend a bowl of ham et al. Music by Skandia Kapell, Folk Voice Band and Smilin’ Scandinavians. Guests $9; blue card Club members $7; children 5–12 soup and a drink! Starts at 5; ends when we run out of soup. $5. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Stay afterward for genealogy in our lobby. Wednesday, Aug. 23. Tuesday, Aug. 8. Chorus Rehearsals Resume. English-language Film. The Swedish Women’s and Svea Male choruses will resume their fall The Girl King. Finnish filmmaker, Swedish topic. Mika Kaurismäki’s schedule, with every-Tuesday practices for men at 6:30–8 p.m. and touching film depicts several years in the life of the 17th-century women at 7:30–9 p.m. Singing together is verrrry Swedish. No Queen Kristina of Sweden. 102 min. 7:30 p.m. $5 donation. auditions, always fresh coffee, everyone welcome. For more info: Friday, Aug. 25. Finnish Your Dinner. [email protected]. Celebrate the 100th year of Finland’s independence by joining diners Wednesday, Aug. 9. Book Club. around the world who are eating outside tonight! Dinner in our Wonderful Feels Like This by Sara Lövestam, translated by Laura front plaza, with white tablecloths and a delicious meal with a Wideburg, PhD, our lead Swedish instructor. (Laura has won Finnish theme. RSVP by Tuesday, 8/22. $28. awards for her translating!) Read this wonderful book about what a Friday, Aug. 25. Happy Hour with Redshift Jazz Trio. bullied teenager can learn from an old man in a retirement home. Redshift uses the classic jazz piano trio format for an eclectic mix of Grab a drink first and meet in the lobby or library. 5:30 p.m. For info: [email protected] or 206-715-4869. Wednesday, Aug. 9. Members & Friends Dinner. Summer’s here, let’s play! Our entertainment is a rousing game of Frågesport (that’s Trivial Pursuit in Swedish). The questions will appeal to Swedophiles. Chef Ann-Margret will serve pork tenderloin with fig marmalade and feta cheese, mushroom sauce, potatoes and vegetables, with chocolate cream pie for dessert. Social hour 5:30, dinner 6:30. RSVP: 206-283-1090 or [email protected]. $20. RSVPs after Monday pay $25. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Swedish Bingo. Wednesday, Aug. 16. Members and guests welcome, every last Wednesday of the Club Board Meeting. month. Enjoy pea soup and homemade limpa bread. Food at Members are welcome to attend as guests. Public comment period around 5 p.m., bingo at 7. Bring cash for your bingo cards! at 6 p.m., followed by the meeting.

6 august 2017 Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Genealogy Research. From the Swedish-Finn Historical Society in our lobby. Monday & Thursday 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Wednesday 2–5 p.m., every pancake Sunday 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Every Tuesday Sing with Us! Starting Aug. 8, Svea Male Chorus meets from 6:30 to 8, and the Swedish Women’s Chorus from 7:30 to 9. Singing together is verrrry Swedish. No auditions, Saturday, Sept. 9. Crazy for Crayfish! always fresh coffee, everyone welcome. Info: Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, but our fall [email protected]. events will give you something to look forward to. Case Every Wednesday (Except 2nd) in point: our annual Kräftskiva crayfish party, complete Lilla Fredag. Our bar is open for Swedish with paper lanterns and co-sponsored by SWEA. pea soup, homemade limpa bread and This year’s festivities include live music, a silent libations. 5 p.m. auction and a raffle. Eat locally caught crayfish, drink snaps made here at the Swedish Club, sing snapsvisa Every Friday and dance the night away. Doesn’t get any more Swedish Food: Kafé & Happy Hour! traditional than that! (There’s more than crayfish on the Our Friday Kafé serves up smörgås (open- menu, though. All sorts of Swedish goodies.) face sandwiches), Swedish meatballs, 6 p.m. $75. Must RSVP by Aug. 20; you can pay desserts and more by Chefs Ann-Margret online at www.swedishclubnw.org. Questions? E-mail Lightle and Malin Jonsson, noon to 2 [email protected]. p.m. Evening Happy Hour showcases entrées Helping the Club? weekly by Chef Christine Lea at 6 p.m. Volunteering is a fun standards, bossa novas and originals, with a sound For menus, visit www.swedishclubnw.org. way to get to know people that always leaves audiences wanting more. 7:30 Matinees. Films with English subtitles. $5 donation. and to become part of the p.m. Free, but you know the drill: Tips welcome! 2 p.m. Come early for lunch in our Kafé (noon to 2). community that gathers at Wednesday, Aug. 30. Swedish Bingo. • Aug. 4: Utvandrarna (The Emigrants). 1971 classic. the Swedish Club. We often Members and guests welcome. Enjoy pea soup and 191 min. need cashiers and servers homemade limpa bread. Bring cash, as bingo cards • Aug. 11: Nybyggarna (The New Land). 1972 for events. Call the Club to can be sold only for cash. (First card $10, additional classic. 202 min. learn where you are needed cards $5.) Food at around 5, bingo at 7. • Aug. 18: A Thousand Times Goodnight. 117 min. most. • Aug. 25: The Girl King. 102 min. Wednesday, Sept. 6. Trivia. Bring your membership Standing Committee Meetings cards Members and guests are welcome. Every first to events. It speeds Building & Property: 1st Monday of the month up lines and make it easier Wednesday of the month, come play Trivia. Enjoy (Aug. 7, Sept. 11, Oct. 2), 5 p.m. for volunteers selling tickets pea soup and homemade limpa bread. Food at Finance: Mon. after 2nd Wed. (no August meeting, or checking you in. around 5, Trivia at 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Oct. 16), 4:30 p.m. Rentals available at Sunday, Sept. 10. Membership: 3rd Monday of the month, except Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Swedish Pancakes. for holidays (Aug. 21, Sept. 18, Oct. 16), 10 a.m. Ave N., Seattle. Call September’s pancake breakfast is delayed a week Board Nominating Committee: Usually 2nd 206-283-1078 or visit due to Labor Day. Music and dancing, plus authentic Wed. (Aug. 9, Sept. 13, Oct. 11), 5 p.m. www.swedishclubnw.org/ Swedish pancakes, lingonberries, ham et al. Music by Guild: Usu. 4th Sat. of the month (no August Venues/venues.htm. If Folk Voice Band, Skandia Kapell and TinnFelen meeting, Sept. 23, Oct. 28), 10 a.m. you’ve been a blue card Hardanger Fiddle Ensemble. Guests $9; blue card Blue card Club members, volunteers and new member for at least a year, Club members $7; children 5–12 $5. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. members welcome. For more information, e-mail you get a 20 percent Stay afterward for genealogy in our lobby. [email protected]. discount. www.swedishclubnw.org 7 Do you suffer from redness and inflammation on your face?

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