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Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 3. desember 2004 • 13
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Arts
Falcons exhibit proposed
PHOTO: DAVID JÓN FULLER
Cousins Devin Firth and Brett Goldhawk read newsclippings
of the Falcons’ exploits at the campaign launch. Both are
descended from Bobbie Benson, who played for the Falcons.
Until December 7
Winnipeg, MB: Inga Torfadóttir’s “Ode to
Odin” will be on display at the Elizabeth
Dafoe Library, 3rd floor, University of Mani-
toba.
Events
Saturday 4 December
Sackville, NS: Scandinavian Society of
Nova Scotia’s Yuletide Dinner at Peace
Lutheran Church, 971 Windsor Junction
Cross Road, telephone (902) 864-1625
Beaverbank & Windsor Junction, Sackville.
Social Hour: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., dinner:
7:30 p.m. Tickets: $30/Member $35/Non-
Member. Cash bar. Please reserve your tick-
ets by Saturday, November 27, 2004. Seat-
ing is limited, therefore absolutely no ticket
sales at the door. For further information
and to reserve seating, please contact Irma
Pitkanen — telephone: (902) 832-3289 or e-
mail: ipitka@accesswave;ca
Vancouver, BC: lcelandic Craft and Bake
Sale, 10 a.m. -1 p.m., at lceland House. All
are welcome to attend. For pre-orders to be
picked up on the 4th or table rental contact
Naomi at (604) 965-9154.
Winnipeg, MB: The First Lutheran Church
Women invite you to attend their annual
Christmas Tea from 1 to 3 p.m. at 580 Victor
Street. Sales of home baking, meat pies,
handicrafts, books, plus white elephant and
touch and take tables. Handicap access.
Winnipeg, MB: Framfari holds its 4th annu-
al jólahátið, or lcelandic Christmas dinner,
in central Wnnipeg. Call (204) 783-2885 or
(204) 475-3048 for tickets. Seating is limit-
ed. Advance ticket sales only. $25 per adult.
Sunday 5 December
Sackville, NS: Scandinavian Society of
Nova Scotia’s Family Christmas Party
Lussefest/Juletreefest 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at Peace Lutheran Church, Beaverbank and
Windsor Junction. Cost: $3 per person (chil-
dren under 2 free). For information contact
Irma Pitkanen: telephone: (902) 832-3289
or e-mail: ipitka@accesswave.ca.
Seattle, WA: The lcelandic Club of Greater
Seattle holds its jólaball at 3 p.m., with
dancing, playing and singing. Preceding the
jólaball Reverend Eric Sigmar will conduct a
jólamessa starting at 2 p.m. Please e-mail
Fanney Guðjónsson at
f.gudjonsson@att.net if you would like to
volunteer to help or bake goodies for the
event.
Victoria, BC: The lcelanders of Victoria
hold their Christmas party, Norway House, 2
p.m.
Saturday 11 December
Minneapolis, MN: The annual jólabama-
ball, jointly sponsored by the Heckla Club
and the lcelandic-American Association of
Minnesota, will be held from noon to 3 p.m.
at the Swedish Institute, 27th Street and
Park Avenue, Minneapolis. Please join us at
this family celebration for dancing and
singing and enjoy cookies and cake and
other lcelandic goodies. As usual, please
bring a plate of sweets to share with others.
Directions needed? Call Steingrimur
Steinolfson at (952) 881-3326.
Sunday 12 December
Edmonton, AB: Norðurljós, the lcelandic
Society of Edmonton, holds its annual
Christmas party at the Dutch Canadian
Centre, 13312-142 Street, 2p.m.
Vancouver, BC: The Children’s Christmas
Party will be held from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the
Scandinavian Centre, 6540 Thomas St.
Burnaby, (604) 294-2777. All are welcome
to attend. There is a charge of $7.50 to off-
set each child’s gift. Please bring something
for the food table.
Sunday 19 December
Minneapolis, MN: The annual lcelandic
Christmas Service will be held at 4 p.m. at
Luther Seminary, 2481 Como Ave, St. Paul,
MN. Dinner out after. Directions needed?
Call Steingrimur Steinolfson at (952) 881-
3326.
Icelandic Classes
Friday 10 December
Winnipeg, MB: lcelandic Canadian Frón
invites all interested for an evening of “lce-
landic Conversation Practice” at the Scan-
dinavian Cultural Centre, 764 Erin St., 6 - 8
p.m. TGIF - Smorg (lcelandic menu). Cost:
$14 Adults.
For information about lcelandic language
dasses available near you, visit www.inlof-
na.org/BB/viewtopic.php?t=93.
Museums/Exhibits
Until December 20
Gimli, MB: “Remembering John McCrae,
1872 - 1918,” a new travelling exhibition
developed by Guelph Museums, offers a
fresh glimpse at the life of John McCrae. On
display at the New lceland Heritage Muse-
um, 94 First Avenue.
Until further notice
Hofsós, lceland: Silent Flashes — an inno-
vative exhibit of Victorian-era photographs
of and by lcelandic immigrants in North
America, 1870-1910. Long-term exhibit at
Frændgarður, The lcelandic Emigration
Center, Hofsós, lceland. For off-season vis-
its contact Valgeir Þorvaldsson:
hofsos @ hofsos.is, phone (354) 453-7935
or fax (354) 453-7936.
Music
Lindy tour dates:
December 8:jyiontreal, QC at Petit Cam-
pus, Main Hall
December 9: Ottawa, ON at Zaphod Bee-
blebrox
December 10: Sherbrooke, PQ at Cafe Bla
Bla
December 18: Windsor, ON at Phog
Lounge
December 19: Hamilton, ON at Staircase
Sports
December 20
Winnipeg, MB: Canada will play in the
‘Team Canada Junior Series’ versus Finland
at the MTS Centre, Portage Avenue
between Donald and Hargrave, at 7:30 p.m.
Team Canada will be wearing replica Win-
nipeg Falcons jerseys for the game. Tickets
are available through Ticketmaster.
Theatre
Until December 5
Winnipeg, MB: The play Unity (1918) runs
at Prairie Theatre Exchange, located on the
3rd Floor of Portage Place in downtown
Winnipeg. Ticket prices run from $20.60
(includes all taxes and fees) for students
and senior to $29.96 (indudes all taxes and
fees) for adults. For more information call
the box office at (204) 942-5483.
David Jón Fuller
WlNNIPEG. MB
Winnipeg’s Betelstadur
Housing Co-op was host to a
special reunion in late Novem-
ber as the Falcons Forever
Exhibit Campaign was
launched. Among the 60 people
filling the residence’s common
room were between 20 and 30
descendants of the original Win-
nipeg Falcons hockey team.
The campaign is raising
money for a commemorative
display at the MTS Centre, Win-
nipeg’s new arena. The exhibit,
when completed, will be seen
by approximately one million
people annually.
Mster of Ceremonies Dan
Johnson announced that
$11,000 had already been raised
through private donors.
Also in attendance were
Brian Johannesson, who told the
history of the Falcons and made
Linda Bjarnason
with Ron Goodman and
Lorne Bjarnason
Calgary, AB
The Leif Eiriksson Icelandic
Club of Calgary (LEIC) was
honoured to have Bjami Tryg-
gvason, Icelandic bom Canadian
astronaut, visit as part of LEIC’s
2004 Speaker Series.
Tryggvason, an applied
mathematician, flew on the
space shuttle in 1997 and since
then has been involved in a num-
ber of research projects initiated
during his space flight.
Tryggvason began his first
day with Ron Goodman at the
Calgary Science Centre. A
group of grade six students lis-
tened to him speak and asked
questions, such as “How does it
feel to fly in space?” and “What
about the future of space flight?”
The students were very excited
about meeting an astronaut.
Tryggvason and some mem-
bers of the LEIC executive
enjoyed supper at The Ranch-
men’s Club prior to his talk at
the Scandinavian Centre, where
approximately 50 people were
already waiting to meet him and
listen to his presentation.
Tryggvason spoke about
the case for supporting the cam-
paign, and John Pawlyk, who
unveiled a mock-up of the pro-
posed display. Ian Rentz of
Hockey Canada thanked the Ice-
landic community for raising
awareness of the Falcons.
science in, about and from
space, and emphasized that the
advancement of science was an
essential component of our mod-
em society. He traced the history
of space observations from early
balloon flight to the intemation-
al space platform, illustrating
with numerous images taken
from space. He described some
of his experiments in diffusion,
and how the process was differ-
ent between ground and space-
bome studies. He used this as an
example of how new scientific
understanding was achieved as
the result of experiments in
space.
After the presentation, there
was a question-and-answer peri-
od covering a wide range of
issues and topics. This was fol-
lowed by a coffee and dessert
reception.
The next moming, Ti-yggva-
son was driven to Markerville by
Lome Bjarnason to meet with
members of the Stephan G.
Stephansson Society and visit
the Markerville Creamery, a
provincial historic site.
Following lunch, he gave an
informal talk on space travel and
related topics, as discussed the
night before. There was a short
question-and-answer period
The display is tentatively
scheduled for completion in
April, 2005. Anyone interested
in contributing to the campaign
is encouraged to contact Brent
Stefanson c/o Stefanson and
Lee, (204) 452-8848.
before it was time to head back
to Calgary.
Before his departure to
Toronto, Bjami said that he thor-
oughly enjoyed visiting with
Icelandic Clubs in Calgary and
Markerville.
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