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“Cherishing Our Past, Embracing Our Future” Solbakken BREEZES, May 2017

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Volume 56, No. 05

Monthly Newsletter of Solbakken Lodge 6-64, Sons of Norway.

Dear Solbakken Members:

Happy Syttende Mai! The observance of 17th of May has often

been compared to the Fourth of July in the US as a celebration

of independence. More correctly, Syttende Mai commemo-

rates the anniversary date of the Constitution of Norway adopt-

ed in 1814. Please attend our Lodge Social on May 3rd

to cel-

ebrate this anniversary with Polse- Viking Dogs!

Our lodge anniversary dinner will be June 7th with payments

being taken at the door. See inside for more information. We will have a Historian re-

port and select a nominating committee for 2018 Officers and committee Chairs. I

know several members attended and enjoyed the Scandinavian Festival at Cal Lu-

theran in early April- they did a wonderful job!

I also wanted to thank Ken Zwick for bringing Bob Meade, Marina high school’s wood-

working teacher to speak to us in April

about the 2 year student project: a

working replica of a 30 foot knarr Viking

ship – VALHALLA.

Kathleen Harkness,

Lodge President


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The April 5, 2017 Lodge Meeting was called to order by President KATHLEEN HARKNESS at 7:42 p.m. There were

28 lodge members (including Bob Meade (our cultural program speaker, who had recently joined the LONG BEACH

Lodge),) and 6 guests present. Membership Chair JUDY IMMEL introduced the guests as Shad Severson, Laurel

Parker, Stephanie Kleinerman, Arla Donahue, Donna Jaecker, and Bob Meade’s mother Georgia Meade. Thank

you to JANET AND DENNIS MAY for acting as Greeters.

KATHLEEN circulated the Meeting Agenda. The Lodge recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the American and

Norwegian National Anthems. The Canadian flag was also flown.

Secretary MARYANN CAZZELL took the Officer Roll Call. In addition to KATHLEEN, JUDY, & herself, the Officers &

Committee Chairs present included Treasurer PETE ANDERSON, Assistant Membership Secretary SIGRID ORTEGA,

Social Chair JANICE STOCZ, Cultural Director ARNE RUSTUNG, Youth & Sports Director and Scholarship Chair KEN

ZWICK, Tubfrim and Publicity Chairs HOWARD AND IRENE BERGH, & Musician BERNICE GUNDERSON. MARYANN

stated that there had been no new correspondence over the past month & that the Minutes of the March 1, 2017

Lodge Meeting were in the Breezes. KEN moved to approve those Minutes, IRENE seconded the motion, and they

were approved as written. The May Breezes deadline is April 14th.

Dinner centered around a baked potato bar. KATHLEEN thanked JUDY IMMEL for substituting in for Committee

Member JUDY HENDERSON. The Committee Chair was PATTI KESSLER (PATTI’s co-Chair ADDIE NINA LISS had been

ill and was unable to attend.) JUDY thanked PATTI and the other Members of her Committee: JANET, DENNIS,

and ED GROVE.

KEN acted as Cultural Chair for this month, and introduced speaker BOB MEADE, who is a “Shop” Teacher at Mari-

na High School in Huntington Beach. BOB presented a power-point presentation and some video of the Norwe-

gian replica ship that he had built along with many of his students. It had received notable press and was launched

in the Huntington Beach Harbor, even later competing in the Christmas Boating Parade.

JUDY presented the Longevity Awards. ARNE received a 50-year membership pin and has also become a Golden Member. Another 50

-year member/Golden member award goes to IRENE McGILL who lives somewhere in the Inyo/Kern Central California area. Efforts are

being made to verify her address and perhaps mail her the pin. JOE LISS earned a 40 year pin but was not present to pick it up. MARGA-

RET WALL also earned a 40-year pin but was not present to collect it, but SHARON LARSON accepted it for her. JIM AND CAROL WEB-

STER each earned 35 year pins but were not present to claim them. PEGGY KENNEDY earned a 15-year pin and collected it. JOHN

HOMME was another 15-year pin winner but was not present. HOWARD, IRENE, KATHLEEN, and LINDA HENKE were all present to

collect the 5-year pins that each had earned. MAGGIE FLYNN had earned a 5-year pin but was not there to receive it. DAVE ENDO and

PAT KING had also earned 5-year pins, but were not present. However JUDY accepted DAVE’s pin and PEGGY KENNEDY accepted the

pin on behalf of PAT.

KEN presented the Sports Awards for 2016. ED was awarded an enamel sykkelmerke. DAVE received all four of

the sykkelmerke pins; since he was not present JUDY accepted them for him. KATHLEEN received bronze, silver

and gold idrettsmerke pins. KEN received enamel idrettsmerke and gang pins. JUDY received gold and enamel

gang pins.

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APRIL 5, 2017 LODGE MEETING


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MARYANN received bronze and silver gang pins. ARNE received more gang pins but was not present to receive

them. Editor’s Note: At the end of the meeting HOWARD and IRENE told KEN that they had not received their pins.

KEN apologized for this oversight and promised to award them at the May Lodge meeting.

Under the Committee Reports, JUDY said that she had received no new applications for membership. Since PETE

had already left, KATHLEEN gave the Financial Report for him. The Freya account had been closed and its funds

moved to the Scholarship account. The five scholarships for 2017 had been distributed. About $5,000 had been

transferred from the corporate account to the general account to cover regular Solbakken expenses.

Financial Counselor PAT KELLY handed a $342 check to the Lodge that represented our “profit-sharing” portion of

the earnings from new financial member products sold to us 2016. PAT spoke about the excellent financial standing

and security of the Sons of Norway Bank. Per KATHLEEN the financial pages of the SON website are very clear and

are an excellent resource to anyone wanting to research this financial information.

Under Empathy/Sunshine, RICHARD PARKER was welcomed back. ADDIE NINA is not feeling well.

JANICE called for the recognition of April birthdays and anniversaries. The Lodge sang Happy Birthday in English and

Norwegian to April birthday girls JANET and ARDYTHE WEIGANDT. HOWARD and IRENE were congratulated on cele-

brating their 52 year wedding anniversary this month. JANET won the Opportunity Drawing and donated the $10 to

the Scholarship Fund.

Under Unfinished Business the Lodge discussed the scheduling problems for the Lutefisk Dinner. Committee Chair

CAROLE CARLSON was not present to answer questions. In her stead KATHLEEN reported that the Round Table

would not be available to us for this Dinner until 2018, and the Fullerton Assistance League also was not available

for the November 11th date that CAROLE had wanted. We will need to consider alternate dates.

Under New Business, on April 1st six Solbakken members had attended the Scan Fest at Cal Lutheran University in

Thousand Oaks. No one from our Lodge had attended the Temecula Lodge’s March 26, 2017 Dinner that featured a

performance by the Stoughton Norwegian dancers from Wisconsin.

The meeting adjourned at 8:51 p.m. The next Board Meeting will be April 18, 2017 at ARNE RUSTUNG’s home in

Yorba Linda. The next Lodge Meeting will be May 3, 2017 at the Placentia Round Table. ARNE is the Chairperson

and it is expected that the menu will include Norwegian poulso and other traditional fare for Syttende Mai. Com-

mittee members bring desserts; other members should bring a salad or side dish for eight.

Respectfully Submitted,

Maryann Cazzell

Lodge Secretary

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APRIL 5, 2017 LODGE MEETING


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When the Nazi army invaded Norway on April 9, 1940 one of their desired goals was to capture the production of heavy water (deuterium oxide = 2 H2O, an important ingredient to create an atomic bomb) from the Norsk Hy-dro power plant at Vemork (to the east of Rjukan).

The location was easy for the Nazis to defend and near impossible to infiltrate. However, we all know how re-sourceful Norwegians are!

In Operation Grouse, the British Special Operations Exec-utive (SOE) successfully placed four Norwegian nationals as an advance team in the region of the Hardanger Plateau above the plant in October 1942. The unsuccesful Operation Freshman was mounted the following month by British paratroopers; they were to rendezvous with the Norwe-gians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork. This attempt failed when the military glid-ers crashed short of their destination, as did one of the tugs, a Handley Page Halifax bomber. The other Halifax returned to base, but all the other participants were killed in the crashes or captured, interrogated, and executed by the Gestapo.

In February 1943, a team of SOE-trained Norwegian commandos succeeded in destroying the pro-duction facility with a second attempt, Operation Gunnerside. Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II

Thereafter, the Nazis decided to cut their losses and move the remaining heavy water out of Nor-way and take it to Germany. They were able to move the heavy water from Vemork to Rjukan, and then onto a ferry to cross Lake Tinnsjå.

The resistance was able to sink the ferry & the heavy water now sits 1,410 feet deep in the lake. Milorg crippled the Nazi goal of an atomic bomb, but 14 Norwegians died with the heavy water.

The heavy water plant was closed in 1971, and in 1988 the power station became the Norwegian Industrial Work-ers Museum.

Vemork – Where Norway Stopped the Atomic Bomb

Lake Tinnsjå, site of the ferry boat attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grouse_(Norway)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Plateau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freshman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_glider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Industrial_Workers_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Industrial_Workers_Museum


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SOLBAKKEN LODGE #64

SONS OF NORWAY

NO. ORANGE CO., CA

(714) 525-9278 [Inquiries]

Placentia Round Table Clubhouse

901 N. Bradford Ave.; Placentia, California

(714) 961-9359 [Round Table]

MAIL: P.O. BOX 10764

FULLERTON, CA 92835-6764

Solbakken Website URL:

https://sites.google.com/site/

sonsofnorwaysolbakken

LODGE MEETING

1st Wednesday, 7:30 P.M.

SOCIAL 6:00 P.M.

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OFFICERS OF THE LODGE

President

Kathleen Harkness (714) 457-3287

E-mail: [email protected]

VP & Membership Chair

OPEN

Secretary Maryann Cazzell (714) 558-1772 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer

Peter Ole Anderson (714) 446-9283

e-mail: [email protected]

Membership Secretary

Judy Immel (714) 880-9557


Counselor

Judy Immel (714) 880-9557


Social Director

Janice Stocz (562) 944-4876

Publicity Director and Webmaster

Howard Bergh (562) 233-8017


Zone 5 Director (Norseman 6-91)

Theresa Broadhead (310) 325-5478 Email:[email protected]

Breezes Editor

Jack Johnson (714) 350-5635


FACTS ABOUT NORWAY’S CONSTITUTION


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MAY 01—May Day

MAY 03—Lodge Meeting

MAY 05—Cinco de Mayo

MAY 08—VE Day, WWII

MAY 14—Mother’s Day

MAY 17—Syttende Mai

MAY 20—Armed Force Day

MAY 29—Memorial Day

Birthdays in May

Fødseldager i Mai

5 JILL AGRE-GILLIAM

5 MARGARET FLYNN

6 AUDREY HICKS

6 HELENA OLSEN

9 KAYLA MEYER

12 DAVID ENDO

12 JUDY IMMEL

14 IRENE BERGH

17 LAUREN RODRIGUEZ

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017

LODGE MEETING—ROUND TABLE

Social 6:00 PM

Dinner 6:30 PM

We will be serving

Polse (Viking Dogs)

Members bring side dishes/salads for 8 people

Committee brings Dessert

Sets up at 5pm & Clean Up

Join us for an evening to remember!

PROGRAM 7:30 PM

CHAIR: Arne Rustung

COMMITTEE: Judy Henderson

Margaret Wall

GREETER: Ed Grove

Culture: Syttende Mai (Arne Rustung)

Thank you to everyone who has sent me cards, & well wishes during my illness, I'm

looking forward to the day when I can start attending the Lodge meetings again.

—Addie NINA Liss


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CAN YOU MATCH THESE FAMOUS NORWEGIAN LANDMARK?

B. TROLLTUNGA —A permanent fixture of

Mountain Skjeggedal located in Odda.

C. FROGNER PARK — a beautiful urban park in Oslo

Norway where the world-famous Vigelandsparken is

situated. The park contains amazing fountains and

sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland that are inte-

grated in a beautiful setting.

D. URNES STAVE CHURCH — blends several archi-tectural styles into a medieval church that is still standing after 900 years. What is remarkable about this church, however, is that it is made en-tirely of wood.

A. ROROS — a popular copper mining town. Copper

mining started there in the 17th century and contin-

ued for more than 300 years.

E. STEGASTEIN VIEWPOINT — BREATHTAKING view-point 30 meters out from the side of the mountain, 650 meters above the Aurland fjord.

ANSWERS: 1--C, 2—E, 3—D, 4—B, 5—A

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SONS OF NORWAY FINANCIAL PRODUCTS

(BY PAT KELLY)

LOOK TO SONS OF NORWAY FOR AFFORDABLE INSUR-

ANCE AND ANNUITIES. ALL FINANCIAL

PRODUCTS ARE GUARANTEED WITH NO RISK!

Estate Planning

Retirement Planning

Life Insurance & Annuities

Some of the highest paying plans in the USA

Long Term Care is discounted

Disability

Medicare Supplement

Contact Our Financial Benefits Counselor for California, Pat Kelly

Cell: 818 -667-6627 Tel: 818-986-7199 Fax: 818-905-5785

Orders taken by phone: 714-993-0441

Cell phone: 714-293-3129

And through e-mail: [email protected]

My Mother’s Lefse

HELP US GROW!

The next meeting is on May 3rd and will be the

5th one of the year 2017. It is to be held at

Round Table.

Don’t forget to bring a

friend & get them inter-

ested in being a member

of SONS OF NORWAY!

Membership is Job No. 1.

Bring in a new member today, or anytime.

We hope you will follow up on any prospects

you may have, from whatever source.

Get your FAMILY MEMBERS involved.

Think about being a lodge officer. Think

about how YOU can make your lodge better.

Attend our meetings, socials and special

events.

Remember the Scholarship Fund and the

Foundation in your giving. Thank you.

Think FAMILY Memberships for your kids & grandkids! Think GIFT Member-ships for almost anyone.

SUPPORT CAMP NORGE—Year ‘round!

CAROL IS BACK IN BUSINESS AND READY TO

TAKE ORDERS JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Janice Stocz, Social Director and Judy Immel, Counselor have

been going over committees for each lodge meeting in

preparation for the 2017 year book.

We have realized that each monthly lodge meeting has a

total of one host/hostess & 1 committee member. That is

not enough to serve a full dinner at each lodge meeting.

We need at least 2 more members each month. There-

fore, if we cannot get more volunteers from the lodge

meetings , we will no longer be able to serve full din-

ners. WE WILL HAVE A DESSERT BAR ONLY.

We would like to continue having a full dinner each

month but don't feel we can continue without additional

volunteers.


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The mission of Sons of Norway is to promote and to

preserve the heritage and culture of Norway, to cel-

ebrate our relationship with other Nordic countries,

and to provide quality insurance and financial prod-

ucts to its members.

Solbakken BREEZES

Is the official publication of:

SOLBAKKEN LODGE #6-64, SONS OF NORWAY

2770 E. DIANA AVE. ANAHEIM, CA 92806-4801

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