Maine Nordmenn 

Nov 20th

 Evening Crafts and Culture

6-9

December 13- Julefest- 11am - 5pm

 Sky-Hy, Topsham, Me

Admission $15- Adult member

                $20- Non Member

16 and under Free if accompanied by an adult

Members are asked to bring Finger Food or a dessert and items for the Silent Auction

Call Gedske 582-0353 or                                                                                            Anne-Lise 207-2934                      

and let them know what you are bringing. and how many children (their names & ages)

The famous Speledans Dance Group will be preforming and teaching Scandinavian dances.

Santa is coming and he will be bringing presents for the children.

St Lucia Procession

Please let Donna Rauschke  (883-4378) know if you have a young child or grandchild that would like to participate in the procession

Peer Gynt

at Portland Players on Forest

 Avenue

Co-sponsered by Maine

Nordmenn

Jan 27th-Feb 22nd

Late breaking news!


We are pleased to announce that the Sons of Norway Foundation has awarded the Maine Nordmenn a $1,000.00 grant to be used to help sponsor the Portland Stage Company's production of Peer Gynt.  They shared their sentiment that they are proud to help their lodges and their communities promote Norwegian culture and heritage events to wider audiences.  With the generosity of donations from our members, this wonderful grant and the number of people who are planning to attend our supporter's dinner and theater night, we anticipate that all costs of our sponsorship of this event will be met.
We would also like to remind members who have not yet contacted Bob Boylestad for their theater reservations for our supporter's evening on January 28th, to please send those in as soon as possible.  We would like to finalize our list to Portland Stage by November 21st.

Rosemaling Classes

Rosemaling  is open to anyone interested in learning or just working on their own pieces. For more information on Rosemaling call Bob Boylestad @ 828-5710 or email:  Rboylestad@aol.com

Stave Church

Woodcarving Classes

Woodcarving is open to anyone interested in learning or just working on their own pieces. For more information on Woodcarving call Herb Hoppe @ 428-4216 or e-mail: Hahoppe@yahoo.com

Looking for anyone interested in Norwegian Knitting to join us.  Call  Anne-Lise 741-2934

The church is open at 12 noon.

Get out of those winter doldrums and come join us for some social time before our general monthly meetings.  Some of us do Woodcarving, Rosemaling, knitting, etc. If you want to bring your own craft such as quilting, scrapbooking, or just join us for a cup of coffee and small talk.  Games or card playing are also some ideas.  Let’s have fun and get to know our fellow Nordmenn.

Save These Dates

Dec 5-7, 2008

at

Land of the Vikings

30th Anniversary Celebration

a full weekend planned,

culminating with

A GALA Dinner Dance on

Saturday Night, with Live Music

Bunads welcome for Saturday night

Regular cost for the weekend

Find rates on website www.sofn3d.org or call Bev

Plus a $25.00 entertainment fee

Per Person

Reservations Are Being Taken Now

Call Bev at 1-570-461-3500

THE ZONE SPORTS MEDAL CHALLENGE

Introducing the first zone sports medal challenge! Bronze, silver, gold or enamel medals will be awarded.

Here’s how it works:  

1. The zones of the 3^rd district will compete against each other.

2. The object is for each member of each lodge to participate in the sports medal program….. NOW!

3. This annual program will be from June 1^st 2008 - May 31^st 2009 and also June 1^st 2009-May 31^st 2010 and the winning zone for each year will be announced at the 2010 convention in June.

\     The awards for each zone will be on a per capita basis -- in other words number of medals divided by the number of members in the zone (based on the most recent 3-D directory). In other words if there are 27 medals earned in a zone of 550 members (27 divided by 550=.049 or 4.9%).  The highest percentage wins. The awards will be provided by the third district and have not yet been determined.  Just start moving now!

Remember, this is by ZONE and possibly it will bring zones together and work and/or socialize with each other giving strength and comradery to the district….use your imagination.  The Zone director will get the award and distribute within the zone as he or she sees fit.

Zone directors have enough work to do so I will not ask them to police it but I am asking them to announce and introduce it to the presidents and/or sports directors of each lodge in your zone and have them send the medal forms to Phil Nelsen, 3D Sports Director, not the zone director.

They can fax it, e-mail it or snail mail it; Fax number is the same as my home phone, 727-461-7746.