President Message

Palm Desert
www.solskinn,org
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Editor: Steinar Johansen
March 2013
March Calendar ................................... p. 2
Finding your Heritage ............................ p. 4
Google Translate........................................ p. 5
Pictures from Lutefisk Dinner ............. p. 6
More from Lutefisk Dinner ................ p. 7
President Message
What an event!!!!
Thank you all who contributed
your time and energy to making this event a great success. We
served 181 meals and had 5 children
under the age of 16. We had over
36 volunteers. Many volunteers
cooked, baked, set-up, cleaned
up and served. I would like
to take a moment to give
a few special thanks.
First Walt Wisler as
our lutefisk chef and
Bob Hendrix as his
assistance received
acclaim from guests
who are lutefisk
hounds from the
Midwest,”this
is the best lutefisk I have
ever eaten”.
Thank you,
Debera
Ellingboe
for taking
reservations,
checks and
finding locations for all
our guests
and filling cancelations as they
came in. Thank you, Heidi Albright
as our new social director for running
the kitchen, cooks and servers to get
the food out in a timely manner to
all our guests. A comment from a
guest was “all the food was great, but
we want more lutefisk!”Thank you to
Nancy for ordering the lutefisk which
was very stressful because our supplier is not good at communication.
She lost nights of sleep worrying that
it wouldn’t arrive. In addition
she and Richard Ellingboe
ran our bar.
Not being a lutefisk fan
I do enjoy the excitement this event brings
to our community.
Also for those that
did not attend we
had four Norwegian
visitors to the valley that happened
by and were able to
join us due to dinner cancelations at
the last minute. So
their last week in
the US was spent
eating lutefisk,
with a much of
crazy Americans
in Pam Desert,
California. Who
would have thought that we would
be part of their trip in the US?
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Our next big event is coming
up, that being our Scandinavian
Heritage Day. There will be lots to
do, learn, eat and entertainment.
We will need volunteers to help so
please contact me if you can volunteer or I will come find you. Tell
your friends; bring your friends,
family and neighbors.
Fraternally,
Luella Grangaard
DATE
Mar 1, Friday
EVENT
Lunch bunch
Mar 3, Sunday
Mar 7, Thursday
March 10, Sunday
Mar 16, Saturday
March 21, Thursday
March 25, Monday
Convention meeting
Hardanger
Business Meeting
Heritage Day
Hardanger
Happy Hour
April 4, Thursday
April 20, Saturday
Hardanger
Social—Meatball cook-off
LOCATION/TIME
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11:30 Kaiser Grill, Palm Springs
Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436
1:30 PM Cheryl Jensen’s 760-321-2380
3:00 PM, Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436
1:30 PM, Debera Ellingboe, 760-699-7436
10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Hope Lutheran all day
3:00 PM Cheryl Jensen 760-321-2380
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Palm Desert Country Club
Cactus Club, 77200 California Dr, PD
Debera Ellingboe 760-699-7436
Phyllis Peterson 760-200-1306
Hope Lutheran
April 20 & 21
EVENTS OUT OF THE VALLEY
Scandinavian Festival
California Lutheran
Solskinn Lodge Year
2012 in Review
March Birthdays
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Haagenson Venita D
Larson Genevieve J
Waldeland Beryl A
Osmer Elizabeth Risdahl
Ellingboe Michael Dean
Picking Luke
Nelson Don O
Arneson Dolores A
Each year the lodge leadership completes a Lodge
Achievement Form (LAF). This form is submitted to our
Zone Director, Rick Hausvik, then to our District President, Lyle Berge and then to the International Board. Just
to share some of the data from this year’s form completion.
We held 72 events including socials, classes, supper club,
happy hour and lunch bunch. We tallied up 5368 hours of
volunteer time towards making our lodge a success and
spend $9911.04 on those events.
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Hurra for deg som fyller ditt år! Ja, deg vil vi
gratulere!
Alle i ring omkring deg vi står, og se, nå vil vi
marsjere.
Bukke, nikke, neie, snu oss omkring, danse så
for deg med hopp og sprett og spring, ønske deg
av hjertet alle gode ting og si meg så, hva vil du
mere?
Gratulere!
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Goals 2012 Solskinn Lodge Calendar Year
Increase membership by 5% which would be a net
gain of 5 adult members, total member number 120
115 not met
Ten members complete 1 level of any culture skill.
Must receive a bar. Met
Plan, sponsor and provide a folkdance dance workshop 2012 (cost $400.00) not completed
Collect $700 for the Foundation. Met
Submit an application for a grant to obtain a professional rosemaling instructor for 2012. Met
Attendance at Heritage Day 300. Met
Outreach to 2 grade schools for Framtid. Not Met
completed one International Day at a grade school
Annual SPPC Fundraiser at
Shaker’s Restaurant
in Glendale
Every year in March, the Southland Past Presidents
Club (SPPC) holds a fundraiser to provide ½ “camperships” to descendents of Sons of Norway members who
attend Camp Trollfjell (the Language and Heritage
Camp) at Camp Norge in Alta, CA. This Fundraiser is
held Tuesday, March 12, 2013 between the hours of 3:00
- 8:00 pm at Shaker’s Family Restaurant, 801 N. Central
Ave, Glendale, CA.
SMALAHOVE
When you order your meal, tell the server that you are
with the Sons of Norway group. 25% of your dinner tab
and bakery purchase will go to the SPPC campership
fund to assist children attending the 2 week summer
camp. Shaker’s (not the pizza place) is a family restaurant
that serves good home-cooked meals; so bring your family, friends and neighbors. You don’t have to be a Sons of
Norway member to participate. Come and celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day at Shaker’s, eat a great meal, and help our
children.
Vaughn Simon
Smalahove is one of those Norwegian delicacies that does
not seem to have migrated to the United States, unlike, lutefisk, lefse, and krumkage. One reason is probably that sheep
were not often raised in areas that Norwegians settled.
Smalahove (also called smalehovud or skjelte) is a
Western Norwegian dish made from a sheep’s head, usually
eaten at Christmastime. The name comes from the combination of the Norwegian words hove, a dialectal form of
hovud, meaning head, and smale, one word for sheep.
In the attached picture the smalahove is shown with
mashed rutabagas, a bottle of akvavit, some beer and wine.
In Voss, a town in the mountains near the south-west
Norwegian fjords, people have always eaten smalahove, and
autumn is the best season to eat it. Ivar Loene runs Norway’s only “smalahove” factory, where patrons can also savor
the traditional dish in a restaurant in a wooden chalet.
After being delivered by the local butcher, the heads
are defrosted and run through a torchblowing machine
which burns off the fur. They are then washed, cut open,
emptied of the brain and gristle, before being salted and
smoked. The head is boiled or steamed for about three hours
and served with mashed rutabaga and potatoes. It is also
traditionally served with Akvavit. In some preparations, the
brain is cooked inside the skull and then eaten with a spoon
or fried.
One half of a head is one serving. The ear and eye are
normally eaten first, as they are the fattest parts and are best
eaten warm. “The best part are the eyes. These are the mostused muscles and therefore they taste best,” said Loene. The
head is eaten from the front to the back, working around the
bones of the skull.
Since 1998, an European Union directive forbids the
production of smalahove from adult sheep, due to fear of
the possibility of transmission of scrapie, a deadly disease of
sheep and goats, though scrapie does not appear to be transmissible to humans. It is now only allowed to be produced
from the heads of lambs.
Smalahove is considered by some to be unappealing
or even repulsive. It is mostly enjoyed by enthusiasts, and is
often served to tourists. Because of its status as an “extreme”
food, tourists often seek it out as a thrill. Voss in particular
has benefited from tourists wishing to try it.
If you can’t go, please consider giving a donation! Send
donations made out to SPPC to: Mike Sondreaal, SPPC
treasurer, 1016 Saxon Place, Thousand Oaks, CA 913605347.
Joke
Ole is the Pastor of the local Norwegian Lutheran
Church and Pastor Sven is the minister of the Swedish
Covenant Church across the road.
One day they are seen pounding a sign into the ground,
which said:
DA END ISS NEAR!
TURN YERSELF AROUNT NOW
BAFOR IT ISS TOO LATE!
As a car speeds past them, the driver leans out his
window and yells, “Leave people alone, you Skandihoovian religious nuts!”
From the curve they heard screeching tires and a
big splash.
Shakin’ his head, Rev. Ole says “Dat’s da terd one
dis mornin’.”
“Yaa,” Pastor Sven agrees, then asks, “Do ya tink
maybe da sign should yust say, ‘Bridge Out?’”
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Finding your Heritage
Sons of Norway Genealogy
I never, ever thought I would be working on my genealogy culture skills for Sons of Norway. This was never
on my radar until my last trip to Norway, which I have
talked about in past articles. Also I told you all about
visiting a cabin
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in an Emigration
museum in Norm
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North Dakota that
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I am loosely connected too. When
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museum I asked
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if they would like
a donation of my
Great GrandfaG
thers minister colth
lar, which you can see in the photos. But as I have learned
by watching “Antiques Road Show” you need to provide
supporting information. So I have been doing research
on the Ballestad family to obtain documentation.
I have all the information I need to send the collar to
Norway but now the story has a twist. When Nancy
and I were in Fargo for the International Convention of
Sons of Norway, while talking to some members of the
Kringen Lodge in Fargo I asked them if they knew any
Grangaards, no one had any information so I figured
what the heck and asked do you know any Ballestads and
the gal answered well yes my cousin Bob Ballestad lives
in Fargo. I got his phone number and his uncle’s number
and got a hold
of his uncle,
Melvin who
is not related
to me. I met
Melvin at
the Kringen
lodge for a
drink and
then dinner.
I got lots of
information
from him regarding the Ballestads and actually clarified information
for me. He had been a member of the church my Greatgrandfather had been minister of in Walcott ND for 30
years. But Melvin had been a member of this church for
89 years, so yes he is the expert. His nephew Bob Ballestad was the son of Luther Ballestad my Grandmothers’
brother, making him my dad’s cousin.
Long story short for Christmas I put together all the information I had collected regarding Great-Grandpa Ballestad sent it to all my cousins and now this new second
cousin Bob Ballestad. Low and behold I got a call from
him in North Dakota and he was visiting California and
would like to meet me. He came to work and we talked
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and
that meeting
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family I never,
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about. So finding your heritage can expand even your
current family.
We have many lodge members that are knowledgeable
on genealogy. I am sure they would support you in your
search and Sons of Norway has many documents to support your journey in the culture skills program.
Submitted by
Luella Grangaard
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Lodge members Nancy Madson and Cheryl Jensen both
entered Hardanger items in the 2013 International Date Festival, in Indio. Nancy won first and second place ribbons on
her Hardanger ornaments. Cheryl won first place and best
in the Division for her Hardanger blouse. Congratulations
ladies on your work and promoting Norwegian Heritage
through your outstanding demonstration of a uniquely
Norwegian needle art.
Google Translate
name on the product.
Tapestry is another technique that had its heyday during
the Renaissance were cultivated in Gudbrandsdalen. In
the early 1600s, Norwegian iron producing furnaces of
great artistic value and interest. This was the beginning of
Norwegian craft.
The tradition of carving and rose painting continued in
the countryside until the late 1800’s. When Norway became independent in 1814 given craft new opportunities.
Poverty in the ensuing decades, however, was marked by
poverty, which hindered development. In the latter half of
the 1800s was a Norwegian craft still strongly influenced
by ancient traditions, but new techniques were gradually
introduced. Hadeland Glassworks was established in 1852
and started production of more refined glass, often using
foreign techniques. Egersund Faiance introduced English stoneware and Porsgrunn Porcelain was opened in
1887……
Goggle translate is a pretty amazing tool. You can use
it to translate single words, sentences or even full articles.
As you will see in this example, the tool does a pretty
good translation. It is not 100% correct but in most cases
you can easily understand what the article is all about.
To get to the translating tool, you simply type www.translate.google.com and then select the language you want to
translate from and the language you want to translate to.
Also, if you are searching for Norwegian articles to
translate, Google is a great place to start. However,
instead of using Google global, type in www.google.no in
your browser and you get Google Norway which focuses
on Norwegian articles.
Here is an example from a website, the website hƩp://
www.norge.se/Om-Norge/kultur/kulturarv/craŌs/
This is just a few paragraphs. You can copy the whole
link to a newspaper into the area for translation or you
can simply type in a word or paste a sentence or a paragraph into the translator. The rest is magic. Enjoy google
translate.
Rosemaling is a Norwegian special painting technique
based on roses of different size and shape as the main
pattern. This art form was especially popular in rural
communities, rose painting is now regarded as a classic
Norwegian folk art.
During the 1500s Norwegian goldsmiths began to stamp
their products, and since that time are always craftsman’s
Submitted by
Steinar Johasnen
Foundation
Your donations come back to us in many ways scholarships, cultural grants and humanitarian support for
those who are in need of help.
Please note the donation form in this newsletter
that gives you an opportunity to recognize a family member or friend. Cards are sent notifying them of a donation
to the Foundation in their honor.
Please don’t deny Porky’s chance to meet with his
girlfriend ... when they meet is in your hands.
Thank you!!!
Once again the generosity of our members showed in
their donations to the Sons of Norway Foundation. The
Pink Pigs were well fed at the Lutefisk Dinner. A total of
$170 was fed to the Pigs. No Lutefisk was found in their
innards so it was a “clean” feed. Thank you very much for
your support.
Porky is well on his way, it’s a long highway, to visit
his girlfriend, Priscilla. $343.00 has been donated to help
Porky reach his goal of $1199.00. Pricilla awaits Pork’s arrival.
If you’d like to take a Pink Pig home, it’s an easy
place to collect your lose change. Recall how your mother
told you change in your pockets made holes. Also, if you
have a Pink Pig at home, please bring it to our next social
and I’ll be happy to exchange it for you.
David Lutes
Foundation Direct or
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Ed Karlsen, Norm Larsen
Debera Ellingboe
Melody Hunsberger, Doreen Karlsen
Walt Wisler, Diane Presley, Bob Hendrix
The Ward family
JR Fleichner
Carole Gould, Berit Reistad
Richard Ellingboe
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February Happy Hour
Pictures Lutefisk Dinner
Pictures Lutefisk Dinner
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Solskinn Lodge Officers - 2013
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Membership
Social Director
Cultural Director
Editor:
Publicity Director:
Counselor:
Sunshine Girl:
Photographer:
Luella Grangaard
363-7704
Diane Presley
401-1752
Debera Ellingboe
699-7436
Carole Gould
636-4652
Nancy Madson
343-0848
Heidi Albright
449-1632
Luella Grangaard
363-7704
Steinar Johansen
898-3340
Berit Reistad
485-1130
Nancy Madson
343-0848
Charlotte Larsen
328-1791
Steinar Johansen
898-3340
Miriam Hendrix
320-9244
Foundation Director: David Lutes
674-1933
Tubfrim Chairman:
John Strom
568-3483
Tel. Tree Chairman: Jules Hamland
318-4199
Historian:
Claudia Bell
340-3992
Assist:
Camp Norge:
Ronna Clymens 951-849-1690
Supper Club:
Librarian:
Corrine Bjerke
360-5229
Auditors:
Normal Larsen
328-1791
Glenn Bell
340-3985
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Location:
Hope Lutheran Church,
Social Hall
45-900 Portola Avenue
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Time: 10:00 A.M. -3:00 P.M.
Contact: Debera Ellingboe 760-699-7436
deberaellingboe@yahoo.com
Steinar Johansen
1820 N Mira Loma Way
Palm Springs CA 92262
Save stamps
for tubfrim
cut 1/4 inch
around the stamp
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