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Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 3. desember 2004 • 3
A trip to
Utah planned
Almar Grímsson, presi-
dent of the INL of Iceland, vis-
ited Utah November 16 and
17. Almar and Jónas Þór will
be guiding a tour of 40 Ice-
landers to Utah as part of the
Icelandic Association of
Utah’s Sesquicentennial Cele-
bration 23 - 26 June 2005.
David Alan Ashby, direc-
tor of Icelandic relations for
the Icelandic Association of
Utah, greeted Almar at the air-
port and hosted him during his
visit to Utah.
The Utah Valley conven-
tion and visitors bureau hosted
Almar for a lunch. Ryan
Jensen, Sales Manager, Utah
Valley CVB, Inc. and Charlene
Christensen, Director of Ser-
vices and Julie, Vice President
Western Leisure Travel met
with Almar to make final plans
for the tour next June.
Presented with Icelandic
F estiv al
Brad Arnason and Connie
Magnusson Schimnowski
were presented with the Man-
itoba Icelandic Festival’s life
membership awards at the
Annual General Meeting in
Gimli in the end of Novem-
ber.
Past President Tim Arna-
son made the presentations.
He mentioned that Brad
Arnason had joined the Ice-
landic Festival more than two
decades ago and had, among
other things, started the popu-
lar Islendingadunk and the
Trebuchet shoot.
“Connie has been so
much a part of this festival for
so many years,” Tim Arnason
said before presenting her
with the award. He also
reminded those in attendance
that she was the first president
of the festival to visit Iceland
in that capacity and her visit
in 1996 had been a contribut-
life memberships
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Connie Magnusson Schimnowski, Brad Arnason and Sandra
Sigurdson, President of the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba.
ing factor in the very close dent and the people of Ice-
relationship with the presi- land.
PHOTO: MORGUNBLAÐIÐ
A new mayor in Reykjavík
Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttir became the mayor of Reyk-
javík, Iceland on December 1. She replaced Þórólfur Arna-
son, who decided to step down after nearly two years in office.
After an official report in the beginning of November
stated that Iceland’s three largest oil companies had been
involved in price fixing for yeárs, Þórólfur Árnason, a former
executive of one of the oil companies, announched his resig-
nation as mayor. He was appointed mayor after Ingibjörg
Sólrún Gísladóttir resigned to run for parliament in 2003.
Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttir has been on the City Coun-
cil for the Reykjavík List for a decade. She is the R-List’s
third mayor during the four-year term that started in 2002.
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Stefan J. Stefanson
honorary member
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Stefan J. Stefanson of
Gimli, MB, was awarded an
honorary membership in the
Icelandic National League of
Iceland at the Annual General
Meeting in the Culture House
in Reykjavík in November.
“This is a great honour,”
Stefan said after receiving the
award. He was the honourary
guest of the AGM. In atten-
dance were about 100 people
including seven special
guests from Manitoba and
one from Chicago.
Stefan, who will be 90
next February, made his first
trip to Iceland in 1968. Since
then he has been a frequent
visitor to the land of his fore-
fathers. For about 20 years he
and his wife Olla and Mar-
jorie and Ted Arnason in
Gimli owned Viking Travel
and organized tours to Ice-
land. “Those were good
years,” he said.
Stefan’s roots are in
Stefan J. Stefanson (left) is
presented with his honorary
membership by Almar
Grímsson in Reykjavík.
Skagafjörður. During this
short visit he did not have
time to visit friends and rela-
tives, “bul I called as many as
I could,” he said. “I only
spent a weekend in Iceland
but the visit made me feel
much younger and at this
moment my plan is to go
there again next year.”
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