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Lögberg Stofnaö 14. janúar 1888 Heimskringla Stofnaö 9. september 1886
Inside this week:
Equine Folties, or a Rocky Ride...........2
Grímkell's Story..........................3
Free Lecture at U of M....................4
Reflections on my Mother,
your Grandmother........................5
A Century Farm.............................6
Children's Corner.........................7
108. Árgangur Föstudagur 30. september 1994 Númer 33
108th Year Publications Mail Registration No. 1667 Friday, 30 September 1994.Number 33
loelandio
News
The Grandest Cake:
■ Björg Kristín Sigþórsdóttir, a chef at
the Bakemaster bakery in Reykjavík, is
claiming the title "lceland's Master in
wedding cakes". She baked this 240
cm high cake, with the assistance of
Rúnar Felixson, for her sister's wed-
ding. Some of the ingredients need-
ed were: 14 kg marzipan, 25 kg
chocolate, 10 liters cream and six
liters Grand Marnier liqueur. The cake
was decorated with 150 hand-made
marzipan flowers and 200 marzipan
leaves as well as 250 miscellaneous
hand-made decorations.
Chretien in lceland:
■ Mr. Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of
Canada, travelled to lceland recently,
as a representative to the World
Conference of Liberal Parties. He
does not consider Quebec's separa-
tion from the other Canadian
provinces impending, regardless of
the outcome of the elections last
Monday. Chretien was asked about
foreign vessels fishing just outside the
200 mile Canadian fishing limits. He
said the Canadians considered it very
important to protect their fish stocks
as best they could and that foreign
vessels fishing under a flag of conve-
nience hindered that goal. Mr.
Chretien was not willing to discuss the
fishing dispute between lceland and
Norway over fishing in the Barents
Sea. Mr. Chretien met with Prime
Minister Davið Oddson, and Jón
Baldvin Hannibalsson, Minister of
Foreign Affairs. He also met with Mr.
Halldór Ásgrimsson Leader of
lceland's Progressive Party who was
elected one of the Association of
Liberal Parties' Vice Presidents.
GUNNUR ISFELD

The state of L*H
Every so often we try
to keep our readers
up to date with
what has been happening
here at Lögberg-
Heimskringla — a kind of
State of the Paper address
to keep you informed
about your newspaper.
This last year has been
a busy one and one of
considerable changes. The
paper is, you might say, at
least in parts, in a state of
flux.
Some things never
change, however. One is
that we still try to bring
you the news from the var-
ious communities across
North America and news
from Iceland itself to the
best of our abilities.
To this end L-H staff
and contributors attended
a great many events. We
were in Gimli of course,
for íslendingadagurinn,
the premier event of all
North American Icelandic
events and we reported on
that but we will have some
comments about it — our
thoughts on its nature and
the course it should take
in the year ahead that we
hope will stimulate some
discussion about how this
jewel of the North
American Icelandic
Community can be made
even better.
We were also in Selkirk
for the annual convention
of the Icelandic National
League and, again, we
hope in the coming year to
open a discussion about
how the relevance and the
impact of the League can
be improved.
Relations with the
Department of Icelandic
at the University of
Manitoba remained close,
with Department Chair
Kirsten Wolf becoming a
regular contributor to the
paper ánd with L-H pro-
viding an outlet for the
department to publicize
its lectures and other
Outreach activities. We
hope that relationship
continues to the mutual
advantage of both parties
and to the benefit of the
community at large.
Lögberg-Heimskringla
also attended some of the
important historical
events of the year, notably
the unveiling of the mon-
ument to the poet
Guttormur Guttormsson
in Riverton and the
unveiling of a monument
celebrating the lOOth
anniversary of the arrival
of Icelandic settlers at Big
Point. We attended the
Western Premier’s confer-
ence in Gimli and
Þorrablóts in Winnipeg
and Arborg and attended
too many events to list
here completely. Other
events were covered by
our contributors, notably
such regulars as Dilla
Narfason in Gimli — who
has come to the rescue of
the Editor-in-Chief with
her camera so often that
we are thinking of
bestowing on her the hon-
orary title of Chief
Photographer — and Joan
Eyolfson Cadham, who
has been keeping you
informed about events in
Saskatchewan and Robert
Asgeirsson in British
Columbia whose occa-
sional contributions and
frequent advice have been
much appreciated.
e receive advice
from many quar-
ters. Dilla has
never been shy about
offering her opinions and
many readers and contrib-
utors write in with their
opinions or buttonhole a
staff member or represen-
tative of the board of
directors at various events
to offer suggestions. AU of
these are carefully consid-
ered both for their merit
and for their practicality
given the limited resources
we have available to us.
None is simply ignored
and we value them and
hope you will keep them
coming whether they are
positive or negative. All of
them help us to put out a
better paper.
We hope this year to
travel further afield. In
June, thanks to the com-
bined efforts of Lögberg-
Heimskringla, the
Winnipeg Free Press and
the Icelandic International
League in Rekjavík, I was
able to attend the 50th
anniversary of Icelandic
independence in Iceland.
Some articles that
appeared in both papers
were syndicated and
appeared in several other
newspapers across the
country, thus, hopefully,
raising awareness of the
Icelandic presence in
North America.
e hope this year
to get to
Saskatchewan,
North Dakota and to more
of the smaller Icelandic
settlements in Manitoba.
In the meantime, we
pour over newsletters from
the clubs, INL chapters
and associations from
across the continent look-
ing for news that we are
unable to cover personal-
ly. These, and the articles
from individuals, are a
valuable source of infor-
mation for us and the
paper would be much
poorer with out it. Please
keep them coming and
keep us posted of any
events that are happening
in your community.
In the meantime, there
has been a major and
important reorganization
of the office that you
should know about. Birgir
Brynjólfsson, who was
formerly Icelandic Editor
and Advertising Director,
has gone to Iceland for an
indefinite period of time.
Gunnur Isfeld has taken
over as Icelandic Editor,
and anyone who has read
her contributions to the
paper over the last few
months knows what a
valuable asset she has
become to L-H. Ray
Gislason has taken on the
position of Advertising
Director. Ray brings many
years experience in sales
to the job and we look for-
ward to seeing a bigger,
richer paper in the future.
We would also like to
thank Fred Isford for the
hard work he put into that
position and into filling in
for Treasurer Gordon
while he was away on a
temporary basis.
A reorganization of the
office itself resulted in the
combining of the positions
of bookkeeper and office
manager. This means that
Laurie Oleson is no longer
office manager but
remains in her position as
Editor. She has been
replaced in the office by
Sandra Duma. Sandra is
Icelandic through her
father, Baldur
Schaldemose, a well-
known figure in the
Manitoba Icelandic com-
munity. Keystone
Graphics remains our
printer and Barbara
Gislason remains the
graphic designer who has
brought you good looking
issues in the past. Tom
Oleson remains Editor in
Chief.
-H is fortunate to
have such a rich
pool of talent to
draw from in seeking help
from within the Icelandic
community. For the office
job alone the board was
hardpressed to choose
from a variety of highly
qualified and motivated
candidates. In the North
American Icelandic com-
munity at large there is a
huge pool of talent and we
hope that we can continue
to draw on it for support,
not only for subscriptions
and donations, but for
contributions to the
newspaper as well.