Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.12.2004, Blaðsíða 5

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 3. desember 2004 • 5
Clark new leader
of the Canadian
Club of Iceland
Alice Ólöf Clark is the
new leader of the Canadian
Club of Iceland. “I have been
so much involved, and when
Peter Pelerson moved back to
Canada I took over,” she
says.
The mission of the club
(http://frontpage.simnet.is/ca
nadian.club/) is to serve as a
focal point for Canadians liv-
ing in Iceland, to welconie
new Canadians arriving in
Iceland ahd to promote and
foster Canadian identity,
unity and values. The main
club events are Canada Day
and Thanksgiving.
“I have lived in Iceland
for about 12 years and
always been very involved in
Canadian matters,” Alice
says. She is an artist from
Ottawa and there she met her
husband Kári Eiríksson, who
was studying arcitecture in
PHOTO: KENT lARUS BJÖRNSSON
Alice Ólöf Clark
Canada. “Many Icelanders
who have studied in Canada
are members of our club but
it is mainly made up of Cana-
dians and their families in
Iceland,” she says.
Kent Lárus Björnsson
aboard INL Iceland
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Kent Lárus Björnsson, Shawn Bryant, Claire Gillis and
Ernest Stefanson at the Annual General Meeting.
Kent Lárus Björnsson,
from Fraserwood, Manitoba, is
a new board member of the
Icelandic National League in
Iceland. He is the first Canadi-
an living in Iceland to become
a board member of the INL.
Eric Stefanson, in Winnipeg, is
also a member of the board.
Over 100 Canadians live in
Iceland and Kent has lived
there since August 2001. He
works as an electronics techni-
cian at Menntaskólinn við
Hamrahlíð, a secondary high
school in Reykjavík. He and
Vilmundur Kristjánsson run
the travel consulting company
Nordic Trails (www.nordic-
trails.org) and the Nordic
Trails’ Canada House. He has
been a tour guide with groups
of Icelanders travelling in
North America and will contin-
ue to do that for the INL of Ice-
land next summer.
Recently, he took over the
website of the INL
(www.inl.is) and he has updat-
ed it a lot. “These things keep
me busy,” he says and points
out that the INL’s website is
now partly in English as well.
“For example, the tours play an
important role in the INL and
the schedule is now available
on the website. People can look
it up and see when a given
group is going to be in Calgary,
or Edmonton, to name only
two places. Just remember to
check back for updated infor-
mation.”
Kent is becoming more
and more Icelandic. He likes it
in Iceland and has no plans to
move back to Canada in the
near future. “I have not given it
a thought but I’ll never give up
my Canadian citizenship,” he
says.
Back in
school again
Teaching in elementary
schools in Iceland resumed in
the middle of November after
an eight-week-long strike.
The strike meant that
about 45,000 students between
six and 16 years of age and
about 4,000 teachers and prin-
cipals were out of the schools
from September 20 to Novem-
ber 15. An agreement could
not be reached and as a result
Parliament passed a law
requiring slrikers to return to
work.
from
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