Celebrating Fram, forward into the future from July 9, 2009-September 1, 2010 District 2 Sons of Norway local lodges in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington honor our 100th Anniversary by learning about Norwegian and/or Norwegian American culture and heritage through the Sons of Norway Cultural Skills Program and sharing this rich culture in their communities; local history projects; exercising more by walking, biking, and running sometimes even to Norway; and sharing their amazing generosity with their neighbors. Sol-Land Lodge 2-086 in Kennewick WA Walk to Bergen Challenge http://www.sol-land.org/bergen.htm 9/18/2009: We Did it! 4500 miles total! Website includes a walker showing progress. Sol-land Lodge succeeded in walking from Kennewick to Bergen in one year. We needed 4100 miles and walked about 4500! Congratulations everyone! We will have a small celebration at the October 2009 meeting. Sol-land Lodge had a "Walk to Bergen" challenge in honor of District 2s 100th anniversary in 2010. Our challenge was to walk, bike or swim as a group, the 4100 miles between Kennewick and Bergen in one year. The challenge started August 19, 2008. Here were the rules for our Walk to Bergen challenge: • You can use any activity that can be measured in mileage: walking, running, cycling, swimming, etc. • If you choose to earn one of the sports medals at the same time—such as Gangmerke, Sykkelmerke or Idrettsmerke—the mileage counts for both. For instance, if you walk 2 miles in a day, you can put 2 miles on your Gangmerke mileage log and 2 miles toward the walk to Bergen. • The total miles (4100) is for the whole lodge, so everyone participating need only do the best they can and we will add up everyone’s miles and apply them to the total. If you have any other questions, please contact DJ Watson (628-3391 – [email protected]) Norden Lodge 2-002 in Tacoma WA Our lodge is donating monies for 100 meals to feed people at the Tacoma Rescue Mission for the December Christmas dinner. We are also encouraging all persons to walk 100 miles from now until May 2010. In addition, we donated $100.00 to the Tacoma Peace Prize, $100.00 to the food bank, and collected 100 items plus for the food bank. Hope this helps with your 100 “something” theme. Joann Thompsen, President Norden Lodge 2 Hovedstad Lodge 2-094 in Olympia WA We are collecting 100 pairs of new socks for the Salvation Army and we are donating 100 meals to Olympia Senior Services for Meals on Wheels. Thanks! Linda Fialkowski, President, Hovedstad Lodge 2-94 Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001 Scholarship Committee in Seattle WA Raising 100,000 cents over the D2 anniversary year through “It makes sense to give cents” fund raising scholarship program for Camp Counselors/Instructors to the District 2 Youth Camps. Heidi Ludeman, Chair Scholarship Committee, Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001 Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001 in Seattle WA We set a goal to increase lodge membership by 100 new members. Doug Warne, President of Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001 Roald Lodge 2-039 in Klamath Falls OR • We will donate $100 to the fund to replace old window shades at the historic 3-story Baldwin Hotel Museum in Klamath Falls. • A local pastor mentioned the gospel mission is in dire need of socks for men and women. We will bring packages of new socks to our April and May meetings, and when we have 100 pair we will donate them to the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission. • Since we live in potato country, during the fall harvest we will donate 100 pounds of potatoes to the Klamath-Lake County Food Bank. • For our annual Christmas giving community project, we will prepare a food basket for a needy family. We will spend $100 from Roald Lodge funds for staples and other items will be donated by lodge members. • Christmas Bazaar at the fairgrounds: • Members will use more than 100 potatoes to make lefse to sell from our booth at the two day Community Christmas Bazaar. • Members will bake more than 200 Scandinavian cookies to sell from our booth. • One of our members will demonstrate how to make krumkake in our booth. We will sell 100 or more. The money raised at the bazaar is used for lodge expenses, community-giving, and to help with expenses to send delegates to the District 2 Convention. Community Volunteers Hours: • Before Memorial Day, members will help the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization place flags on the graves of veterans, and will help take the flags off after Memorial Day. • Members will be volunteering their time from Memorial Day through Labor Day to be greeters at the historic 3-story Baldwin Hotel Museum. The museum is open Tuesday- Saturday from 10AM-4PM, and members will choose the days best for them to help out. • In October, we will have a booth at the Merrill Potato Festival. The small town of Merrill is 15 miles from Klamath Falls. We will offer free coffee to those who stop at our booth. We like to show the rural towns in our area Sons of Norway supports their community events. We also hope to gain new members through these volunteer activities. • We will have our Viking Ship in the Snowflake Festival evening parade in December. The parade committee works hard to decorate the ship according to the theme of the parade for the year. We have won first place in the “Organization Category” the last two years and many years prior. Our participation not only gives Sons of Norway Roald Lodge 2-039 exposure, it also shows we support community events. Salvation Army • We will volunteer to help the Salvation Army sort into categories the many donations of canned goods, dry goods, etc. for the Christmas boxes for needy families. We will help prepare the Christmas boxes. • We will volunteer on the day families come to pick up their boxes. Around 700 boxes were given out in 2009 • We will volunteer to “ring the bell” by the Salvation Army donation kettles at local businesses. Our youngest lodge member, Carrie Rardon, offered to play Christmas songs on her violin during the daytime. Crisis Center We will donate 100 toiletry articles to the Crisis Center including tooth brushes, tooth paste, soaps, shampoos, etc. Lodge Activities In addition to the above mentioned activities, we plan to have a workshop where we will make 100 woven red and white. small and large, Scandinavian heart baskets for the Christmas tree we decorate for our Christmas party. Of course, like all good Scandinavians, we have fun singing and dancing around the Christmas tree at the party! Respectfully submitted, Roald Lodge Board Members Fedrelandet Lodge 2-23 in Petersburg AK Our lodge and our adopt-a-school coordinator are planning a reading to Hammerfest, our sister city. Each book will be worth XX miles, and we will try to reach there by 5/17. We are also hoping to do a day-in-the-life of a child from Petersburg and one from Hammerfest. We are hoping to include a combination of photos, writings and video. Should be a fun project for the kids to take on. I have been corresponding with my counterpart at the Hammerfest Tourism Bureau and he has been really helpful. I work at 19 Fram Street... Sally Dwyer, Fedrelandet 2-023 and District 2 Sons of Norway Zone 6 Director Wergeland Lodge 2-021 in Bellingham WA Wergeland Lodge donated $100.00 to help start a Camp Fire Club in the Everson/Nooksack area of Whatcom County. The lodge sees this as means of reaching out and creating an interest in the Norwegian culture. The girls came to our breakfast last month and sold their candy (Campfire Girls project). Elaine Grasdock, President Poulsbo Lodge 2-044 in Poulsbo WA We will have a theme of 100 years ago for our youth day camp in June. In addition, we will be looking at Arctic and Antarctic exploration. One of our lodge members is planning to share his slides from Antarctica. At our March board and lodge meetings the Poulsbo Sons of Norway decided to do a food drive to celebrate the 100th anniversary of District 2. Our Youth Dancers hope to collect 100 jars of peanut butter as we heard the food bank is all out of this staple. Our lodge members are encouraged to bring a can or box of food to the lodge every time they come, with a goal of 100 pounds by the April lodge meeting. We will be publishing a list of “most wanted items” from our local food bank in the April newsletter. We will let you know how we do. God Bless, Joanne Graves Poulsbo Sons of Norway Youth Director Svalbard Lodge 2-033 in Juneau AK Donated 100 Norwegian language books to Pacific Lutheran University's Norwegian Department for use in their reference library. Thanks, David Moe, President Svalbard Lodge 2-033 Normanna Lodge 2-003 in Everett WA Normanna Lodge is hosting the 2010 District 2 Convention in Everett, WA, on May 19-22. This is also the 100th Anniversary of District 2 which Normanna will help honor and celebrate at the Everett Convention Center and Normanna Hall. Normanna Lodge currently has 1096 members and increasing as we continue Fram! Kevin Hegge Vice President of Normanna Lodge 2-003 Harald Haarfager Lodge 2-011, Coeur d’Alene, ID Harald Haarfager 2-011 shares a Centennial Year with District 2, having also been formed in 1910.