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President:* Kenneth Johnson kgjohnson@optonline.net Vice President:* Helen Timony Secretary:* Anita Kindberg Treasurer:* Kristine Holvic Financial Secretary:* Cynthia Biancospino Counselor:*

Asbjørn Lageraaen Social Director: Darlene Kern Assistants: Crystal NiFong & Oriya Bartow Editor: Lawrence Lund Sports & Recreation Director: John Kern Cultural Director: Asbjørn Lageraaen Recording Secretary:

Margaret Lageraaen Publicity Director:

Vacant Trustees: Kathleen Egidi 1 yr. Renee Johnson 2 yr. Jeanne Andersen 3 yr. Marshal: Dave Stahl Bert Haug (assistant) Greeter: Jayne Mawhinney Foundation Director: Marge Duckles Historian: David Bartow Youth Director: Oriya Bartow Sunshine: Marie Von Seggern \ Meetings every third Friday of the month at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Islip Terrace, NY. The deadline for Courier is the 25th of each month! *Executive Board

President’s Message: I thought my message in the Janu-ary 2011 issue of Henrik Ibsen Courier would have been my last one, however, Mother Nature had other plans and I am still here. Brother Ken and I decided this morning (Thursday), that due to the potential for snow and cold weather tomorrow night, we de-cided it would be best to cancel the membership meeting and the in-stallation of new Officers. At this time you all should have been ad-vised about this cancellation. Now, twelve hours later, we did get snow last night, perhaps not as much as the weatherman forecast. One has to make a decision from the information available at the time. The Installation of new officers for 2011 - 2012 will, therefore, be held at our February 18th meeting in-stead. Until that date, the old Board is still alive!

During the month of February there are no other special SOfN events here on Long Island. How-ever, during the month of March we do have two bowling events; Henrik Ibsen Bowling for Fun March 6 at Bay Shore Lanes and Zone One Bowling to be held at Coram County Lanes, March 20 at 2:00pm. Brother John Kern, our Sports Di-rector, will give you more details. We hope for better Luck next time! Asbjørn

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SONS OF NORWAY February 2011 HENRIK IBSEN LODGE No. 3-393

Officers 2011

Table of Contents Presidents message ......................................1 Happy Birthday ...........................................2 Lodge Calendar ...........................................3 Bit’s and Pieces ...........................................4 Zone 1 Happenings......................................4 Boosters.......................................................5 3rd District Presidents message...................6 Peconic Lodge Events .................................7 Bowling for fun flyer...................................8 Faerder Lodge 100th Anniversary flyer ......9 3D LOV letter flyer ...................................10 Advertisers ................................................11 Calendar and mailing page ........................12

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January Pot of Gold Won by

Meeting canceled

February Coffee Hostesses ????????????

Sunshine Committee Headed by: Marie Von Seggern (631) 581-7893

Please inform of any news on members

All is well…..

February Happy Birthday’s! Gratulerer med dagen!

Jason F Everson 1 John R Kern 3 Timothy J Stahl 6 Katrina Beck 9 James A Hipperling 9 Kirsten I Johnsen 9 Darlene Kern 18 George W Kevick 25 Meghan Mawhinney 27 Marie McGuinness 28

Clip and bring to Bowling Alley

Henrik Ibsen Lodge 3-393 Odd Gabrielsen’s Memorial

“Bowling for Fun”

Team Name: _____________ 1. ________________ 2. ________________ 3. ________________ 4. ________________ 5. ________________

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says, "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says, "Okay, let's get started."

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Henrik Ibsen Lodge Calendar 2011 Date/Time Event and Comments February 18, 7:30 Membership meeting, Installation March 6, 1pm Bowling for fun Bay Shore lanes. See page 8 flyer March 18, 7:30 Membership meeting March 20, 2:00pm, Zone Bowling at Coram County Lanes. Will be arranged by Peconic Lodge. April 15, 7:00pm Brother’s Night: St. Patrick’s Dinner followed by a short meeting and fun May 1, 3:00pm Zone Memorial Service at St. mark’s Episcopal Church in Islip. Henrik to provide

Coffee and Cakes May 15, 1:00 17th May Parade in Brooklyn May 20, 7:30pm Membership meeting May 22, ?:00pm Zone One Scholarship Play “??????” at Star Theater Suffolk JCC, 74 Hauppauge

Rd, Commack Jun 17, 7:30pm Business meeting Strawberry Festival Jun ??, 8:00am-3:00pm Henrik Ibsen Yard Sale July ??, 1:00pm BBQ Party at Ken and Renee's Sep 16 Business meeting at LOV Land of the Vikings Oct 21, 7:30pm Business meeting Oct ??, 8:30m-3:00pm Henrik Ibsen Yard Sale Nov 18, 7:00pm Business meeting, Sisters Night Dec ??, 1:00pm Children's Christmas Party Dec ??, 7:30pm Adult Christmas Party

How the fights start

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, "Do you know her?" “Yes, I sighed, She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.”

”My God!” says my wife, “Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”

And then the fight started....

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Click the link below to see the application

Miss Norway Application

Little Miss Norway application

The Norwegian Immigration Association, Inc.

Miss Norway Contest

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“Zone One Happening’s” February 2011 – June 2011

Henrik Ibsen this year is only responsible for help supporting the scholarship play

• Non Zone event but everyone attends, Peconic Lodge Cod Fish dinner, March 5th 7PM • Zone Bowling, March 20, 2011 at 2PM. Peconic host, Coram Country Lanes details TBA, see John

Kern for details • Children’s Heritage Fair, April 3th 2011, St. James Lutheran Church (this is a date change) • Joint Zone Social, Garborg host, a day Bus Trip to Atlantic City is being organized for late spring or

early summer. • Zone Memorial Service, May 1st, Henrik Ibsen host. This is a rotation change with Garborg, they

will do 2012. • Scholarship Play, May 22nd, Henrik Ibsen to provide table cloths, Star Theater “Oliver” Dinner de-

tails after the show TBA.

Second Bus trip and / or picnic plans under discussion, your thoughts?

UPDATES WILL BE DONE MONTHLY REMEMBER IT’S YOUR ZONE……ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THE ZONE STRONG. ATTEND AS MANY

ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS AS POSIBLE. Your Lodge representative to the Zone, Ken, Asbjørn, & Helen.

Bits and Pieces

Scholarship forms will be available from Bette Stahl at the next meeting. Yes, it is that time again.

The application has to be returned to me before March 15th 2011. Or as soon as you have completed the form with all necessary items. Any questions you can call Bette at 667 7331.

Return your materials to: Bette Stahl at 67 Crossway Dr. Deer Park, NY 11729.

Arthur & Turid Mikalsen renewed their Courier Booster for 3 years and gave a change of address, their new address is: 728 Victoria Dr. Apt 102 Cape Coral, Florida 33904-9533 and they wish all the old timers godt nytt år Does anyone know if they have an e-mail address? Because of the snowstorm, the January Installation meeting was cancelled and will be held at the February meeting.

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Did You Know You can view the complete 3rd District Newsletters on the internet at:

http://www.3dsofn.org/

And you can visit our own web page at: http://www.llund.com/sons.htm

View our organization structure at: http://www.llund.com/sonorg.htm

Or view this newsletter and others in full color at:

http://www.llund.com/newsletters/

Anyone with ideas for monthly social activities please contact Darlene Kern at (631) 666-7668

If anyone has any ideas of cultural activities, such as Rosemaling, wood carving etc., please contact our cultural director Asbjørn Lageraaen.

Courier Boosters ($12/year) If you are interested in contributing or renewing the Booster, please see the editor.

. The cost is $12.00 per year. This helps to off set the cost of the Courier. Many thanks to all who contribute. Make checks out to: “Henrik Ibsen Lodge 393” and send it to Henrik Ibsen lodge #393, Cynthia Biancospino, Finan-

cial Secretary, 179 Studley Street, Brentwood, NY 11717

Expired or expiring Many thanks for your continued support!

Grace Schumacher 10/10 Melody & Tore Wubbenhurst 10/10 Ednamae Nordby Jr. 11/10 John Olsen 12/10 Rolf Stensaker 12/10

Grace Schumacher 10/10 Melody & Tore Wubbenhurst 10/10 Ednamae Nordby Jr. 11/10 John Olsen 12/10 Eleanor & Lenora Vik 12/10 Rolf Stensaker 12/10 Gladys Everson 1/11 Marie & Vanessa Von Seggern 1/11 Kathleen Egidi 2/11 Shirley Gatland 3/11 Lawrence & Monica Lund 4/11 Walter Bergskaug 4/11 Dan Tohill 4/11 Aase Eikevik 5/11 Harald Aukland 5/11 Karen Bourque-Scott 8/11

Elsa Granz 9/11 Ken & Renee Johnson 10/11 Anita Kindberg 11/11 Nancy Cervenka 11/11 Eleanor & Lenora Vik 12/11 Marie McGuinness 12/11 David & Bette Stahl 6/12 Arthur & Turid Mikalsen 1/14

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W ell I guess most of us either had a white Christmas or a white New Years, but if you didn't have snow, I am sure it

was chilly where ever you where. One of our success stories this year was our web site. During the first 6 months we aver-aged 161 daily visitors and that jumped to 190 for the last 6 months. June was our highest month when we averaged 227 daily visitors. I am sure they were looking for convention infor-mation. The site has not only been fun but it is a trove of information with bylaws, reports books, Dis-trict Convention minutes, forms, event listings, current information, District and local lodge newsletters and much more available to you with just a click http://www.3dsofn.org/home.html . We just received some great news; Hurtigruten Inc has donated two cabins (two passengers per cabin) to Dis-trict 3 to be used as a fund raiser. The tickets are valid during between 1 October and 14 December 2011. The raffle tickets will be mailed to the lodges ASAP. The drawing will be on 15 July at LOV. If you are not sure what the trip is all about read this note from one of our last year’s winners http://www.3dsofn.org/blog/?p=268 . You will want to go!!!!!! We are still working with Vesterheim on the wood-carving and rosemaling classes that will be held at LOV and conducted by Vesterheim instructors. We will have the full details shortly. Right now we are hoping to have two sections of rosemaling and wood-carving classes starting September 11, 2011. Check the web site for the latest. LOV will be sponsoring a lobster fest this year. Make sure you get a reservation. June 4 is the date so circle it and call soon. The District had 4 goals in 2009. We came close on two of them, reducing voluntary leaving by 10% and increasing delegate attendance at the convention, we failed on increasing active membership committees but did reach our goal of 75 new benefit members signing up 100 new benefit members. Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to work on increasing the membership committees.

We have two District wide sports events coming up. Check this site out for more information. h t t p : / / w w w . 3 d s o f n . o r g / a b o u t u s /sportsrecreation.html Our sports medal com-petition has been great. Keep it up but I doubt if anyone can beat Hampton Roads. Based on

our current performance I do not expect Hamp-ton Roads to win the bowling competition but we

will bowl.

I will be spending a few days in Zone 5 during January installing 3 lodges and visiting a couple more. I will be heading north to Zone 6 and Zone 3 over the next couple of months so I am looking forward to meeting with many of you during my travels. Fraternally Ralph Peterson President District 3

FROM THE PRESIDENT Publication of District 3, Sons of Norway

Website: http://www.3dsofn.org Ralph Peterson President

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