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íslendingadagurinn 2001
Week at a glance
Saga of John Johnson
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Friday 24 August 2001 • Number 28/ Föstudagur 24 ágúst 2001* Númer 28
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THE ICELANDIC WEEKLY
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Registration no. 08000
Agreement no. 1402161
115th year/115. Árgangur
ISSN 0047-4967
Fréttir • News
Icelandic Department to
Celebrate Fifty Years
At the University of
Manitoba’s Homecoming
week-end September 20, 22 and
23, 2001 the Department of
Icelandic will celebrate its fiflieth
anniversary. It invites all alumni
to join them - if you took one
class, you are considered an
alumnus!! Also invited are all
friends of the Icelandic presence
at the University of Manitoba.
Haraldur Bessason, who held
the Chair in Icelandic for thirty-
one years, will be guest of honour
at the celebration. °órarinn
Eldjárn, well known Icelandic
author and son of Kristján Eldjám,
fonner President of Iceland, will
be a special visitor and will do
readings from his work.
Hallgerður (Halla)
Gísladóttir, a curator at the
National Museum in lceland
whose speciality is the history of
Icealndic food and its prepara-
tion, will give a talk and do
demonstrations. She wrote the
book Islensk Matarhefd
(Icelandic Food Tradition) pub-
lished in 1999.
The Dr. Paul H.T.Thorlakson
Gallery at the Icelandic
Collection will open an exhibit of
Arctic explorere Vilhjálmur
Stefánsson on Thursday evening,
the 20th of September.
For more information, please
contact the Department at (204)
474-8487, or go to its website
through www.umanitoba.ca.
Haraldur
Bessason
Guest of
Honour
Iceland Days 2001 in Utah
David A. Ashby,
Spanish Forks, Utah
On Saturday and Sunday
August 4th and 5th
Icelanders in Utah celebrat-
ed their 104th Iceland Days.
President John K. Johnson
declared this year’s Iceland Days
one of the best. The Icelandic Fun
Run, the first Viking fun mn in a
number of years, which began at
8:00 AM Saturday, had only eight
entries, which gave the participants
a great chance to win. Plan now to
run in the Viking Fun Run 2002.
The Golf Toumament, which began
at 9:00, will also grow with the
years.
Formal activities began at 1:00
when President Johnson called the
meeting to order. It was a short
business meeting, because this is an
odd year. Next year a new president
and board will be elected.
There were many activities for
all ages — the Leifson family sold
Icelandic pancakes and there were
several booths to visit. There was a
viking battle demonstration by the
Society for Creative Anachonism,
and story telling for the children by
Leslie Louw from the Timp Tellers.
Children also had a live fish pond to
play with.
Joy Christmas and Lil Shepherd
were honored for their long time
service to the Icelandic Association
and community. Honours were pre-
sented to Joy by her sister Nadine
Staheli and to Lil by her daughter
Ashlie.
The Icelandic Children’s Choir
sang, Betty Robinson’s daughter
Patty modelled the Icelandic dress
she made for the Olympics, Ray and
Sally Anderson did a video presen-
tation of their year and a half in
Iceland, while special guest singer
was Holly Morkraf.
The day closed with a lamb din-
ner prepared by Richard Johnson —
16 legs cooked in Dutch ovens —
with glazed potatoes prepared by
Emil Emilsson.
On Sunday there was a Special
Fireside, where Daniel H. Ludlow
spoke on the Icelandic sagas and
several retumed missionaries spoke
on their experiences in lceland.
Music was by the Children’s Choir.
Check their website for more story
and pictures.
http://communities.msn.com/Icelan
dicAssociationofUtah/home.html
Parade at Iceland Days
Photo courtesy of lcelandic Assoc. of Utah
íslenskir í jóttamenn keppa í Edmonton
Icelandic Athletes Compete in Edmonton
Armann Ingolfsson
Edmonton, AB
Iceland sent four athletes to the
2001 World Championships in
Athletics (track and field), held
August 3-12 in Edmonton. Vala
Flosadóttir and °órey Edda Elísdóttir
both competed in the women’s pole
vault, Einar Karl Hjartarson in the
men’s high jump, and Jón Amar
Magnússon in men’s decathlon.
°órey Edda turned in the best per-
formance, placing 6th with a person-
al-best jump of 4.45 meters. Vala, a
bronze medal winner from the 2000
Olympic Games in Sidney, jumped
4.15 meters and did not qualify for
the finals. Einar Karl jumped 2.20
meters in his first rnajor internation-
al meet. Jón Amar was injured in the
second event of the decathlon and
was not able to finish.
The athletes and coaches
(Vésteinn Hafsteinsson and Kristján
Gissurarson) spent 10 days in
Edmonton prior to the champi-
onships to train and “get acclima-
tized to the heat” as one of the
coaches put it. On August 1, they
attended a concert givén by the
Alafoss Choir from Iceland, and
mingled with members of the
Edmonton Icelandic Society. Jónas
Egilsson, the president of the
Icelandic Track and Field
Association, and two reporters from
the Icelandic National Broadcasting
Service attended as well.
Jón Amar is the most experi-
enced of these athletes. A two-time
Olympian, these were his fourth
World Championships. The other
three athletes are all under 25 years
of age, so it is.
Vala Flosadóttir and °órey Edda
Elísdóttir. Photo courtesy of Morgunbladid
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