Lögberg-Heimskringla - 17.06.2005, Blaðsíða 8

8 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Friday 17 June 2005
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PHOTO: STEINPÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Gordon J. Reykdal, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Rentcash Inc. and Honorary
Consul of the Republic of lceland for Northern
Alberta and the Northwest Territories, is the
biggest supporter of Lögberg-Heimskringla.
Towards the end of last year, he provided the
paper with a rent-free premises in Winnipeg for
five years, and recently he donated $100,000 to
the paper’s fundraising campaign.
44 TThave decided to begin
I a fundraising drive to
J-secure the future of
the Lögberg-Heimskringla,
which, as I understand it, is the
oldest continously published
ethnic néwspaper in Canada
and perhaps North America,”
Gordon Reykdal says about
his generous donations to L-
H. “My $100,000 pledge will
be the beginning of making
sure the newspaper has a solid
financial future so it can con-
tinue to serve the community
as it has so well in the past.”
Wants to improve trade and
commerce with Iceland
Lögberg-Heimskringla
has survived because people
like Gordon Reykdal have be-
lieved in it. “The newspaper is
the symbol for what I believe
is important in the whole com-
munity,” he says. “It’s one of
our oldest institutions, but it
also is one of the most sig-
nificant. It ties us together as a
people here in North America,
and creates a vehicle every-
one can take part in. As long
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