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February 14  Sunday  1-4 pm Members Meeting - Roger Anderson will present a program on Norwegian Genealogy. Please bring finger food to share.

February 18 (Thursday) Nordic Crafts and Culture time 9-4   Board Meeting

March 4th (Thursday) 1-9pm  Crafts and Culture, 4pm board meeting, 6;30 Members meeting_ Scott Andrews will be telling us about the Scandinavian influence on skiing in Maine. 

March 18 9-4 (Thursday) Nordic crafts and Culture

Board Meeting

April 11th (Sunday) 1-4 Meembers Meeting- Diane Eiker will be telling us about Nisse and their Homes (be sure to bring your children and grandchildren) 

April 15  9-4 (Thursday) Nordic Crafts and Culture

Board Meeting

May Possibly going to Brooklyn for the 17th of May Parade if enough people would be interested. Possibly renting a small bus, Let us know if this something you would be interested in doing. Maybe 1 over night. 

July 31st  Saturday   Hummerfest at Bailey Island   11-5

Sept 2nd  1-9  Thursday 

Crafts Culture and Games

6:30 Members Meeting

everyone welcome, come enjoy 

Sept 16  9-4  Thursday-

Crafts Culture and Games

Board Meeting

October 7th 1-9  Thursday 

Crafts Culture and Games

  6:30 Members Meeting (New Members Dinner)

October 21st  9-4 Thursday

Crafts, Culture and Games

Board Meeting

November 4th 1-9  Thursday

1pm Crafts culture and Games

6:30 Members Meeting 

November 18th  9-4 Thursday 

Crafts, Culture and Games

Board Meeting

 Dec 4th -    Saturday,  Julefest

Details to be announced

                                                                                                                                               Late breaking news!

Diane Eiker has won the 3rd Districk raffle- a trip on the Hurtigruten along the coast of Norway from Bergen to Kirkenes 

Julia Edwards

 The daughter of one of our members ,Marketa Edwards, has been selected to go to Norway on a Fulbright Scholarship.She will be teaching English at the University of Oslo. She will have orientation at the end of August and then it's a 10 month Fulbright teaching assistantship.  It is the first time Norway is participating in the teaching program. They have previously only had research assistanships through the Fulbright program. Only two people were selected to go to Norway as teachers, and I think it's special that one of them is the daughter of a SON member!  She is also a graduate of South Portland High School and the University of Southern Maine.

Seton Hall MA Student Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Norway
Seton Hall > News & Events

Thursday, March 19, 2009
by: Dr. Jim Kimble

A Seton Hall University graduate student has won a Fulbright Scholarship that will take her to Norway for ten months. Julia Edwards, an MA candidate in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations, is one of only two U.S. students to be awarded a position in Norway’s Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Program this year.

Edwards’ Fulbright application detailed her teaching experience and her background in Model United Nations activities - an activity she expects to organize in her Norwegian institution. Letters of support from Dr. Philip Moremen (School of Diplomacy & International Relations), Dr. Lynn Kuzma (University of Southern Maine), and Liliya Panayev (Montclair High School) detailed Edwards’ background and qualifications as both ambitious and exemplary. 

After a two-day orientation in Oslo this coming August, Edwards will begin her placement as an ETA. For the duration of her stay, the Fulbright award will pay for all transportation, living, and medical insurance expenses. Upon her return to the U.S., Edwards aims to become a high school teacher, using her extensive international experience to broaden her students’ education.

Edwards is the third Seton Hall student to become a Fulbright Scholar. Both previous awards were for student research. In a 2004-2005 Fulbright award to Belgium and Luxembroug, Yevgeniy E. Oleynikov studied European Union foreign policy toward the U.S. In 1994-1995, Theresa M. Napolitano studied Sweden’s role in regional civilian defense while on a Fulbright award to that county.

Seton Hall’s growing Fulbright initiative is an important aspect of the university’s increasing internationalization efforts. While only two SHU students applied for a Fulbright awards in 2007-2008, eleven applied in this year’s cycle, including Edwards. The university’s Fellowships Advisor, Dr. James J. Kimble, hopes to hear word of additional Fulbright awards in the coming weeks. Students in next year’s senior class and any graduate students interested in a Fulbright application in the upcoming application cycle should contact Kimble to prepare their application, due in mid-September. The program supports study and teaching grants in over 140 countries across the world.

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

Maine Nordmenn woodcarvers visit Rarley Refsal, Noted teacher and woodcarver , at the Hostfest in Minot ND.

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  

Gedske Szepsy 582-0353

• The church is open at 9am on the 3rd Thursday for classes and at 1pm on the 1st Thursday before our Members Meeting.
  

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.

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.