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Lögberg-Heimskringla • 15. maí 2007 • 3
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News from
Iceland
Nova Scotia AGM features speakers from Scotian Homes
MIDDLE MUSQUODO-
BOIT, NS — Representatives
from the award-winning com-
pany Scotian Homes, which has
built homes in Iceland, were
guest speakers at the annual
general meeting of the Icelan-
dic Memorial Society of Nova
Scotia on April 15. The meet-
ing was held at the Department
of Natural Resources Education
Centre, Middle Musquodoboit.
At the business meeting the
following members were re-
elected to form the Executive:
Chair, Dolly Belmore; Vice-
Chair, Glenda Burrows; Secre-
tary, J. Marshall Burgess; Trea-
surer, Beverly Redden; Member
at Large, Wayne Scott.
Marshall Burgess intro-
duced the guest speakers: Su-
zanne Bona, President of Sco-
tian Homes and Enfi eld Home
Hardware; and Steven Bouman,
Sales and International Market-
ing Manager, Scotian Homes.
On 25 June 2006, the
Chronicle Herald had a cover
story in its business section
on Suzanne Bona (“A Bona
fi de overachiever”). Her fam-
ily (Bob Bona) took over the
Enfi eld Hardware in 1983. Su-
zanne, who graduated from St.
Francis Xavier University, took
over as President in 2005.
Scotian Homes has won
many awards for the homes it
has built. In 2005 it was named
the 2005 Nova Scotia Home
Builders Association Builder
of the Year. In November 2006,
Suzanne was one of 18 women
given a Women of Excellence
Award in the Management and
Professions category.
For the past 10 years, Sco-
tian Homes International has
been involved in building
homes in Iceland. To date over
30 homes have been built. Last
September special celebrations
were held on the completion of
one of Scotian Homes’ proj-
ects. Canada’s new Ambassa-
dor in Iceland, Anne Blauveldt,
attended. Their “Super E” certi-
fi cation was issued. Traust Hús
is their partner in Iceland.
Suzanne and Steven showed
a slide presentation of their lat-
est project and described the
experiences of the 12 employ-
ees that were sent over to work
on the project.
Scotian Homes has had a
positive experience in the home
building business in Iceland.
The Society thanked Suzanne
and Steven for sharing their ex-
perience.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARSHALL BURGESS
From left: Glenda Burrows, Steven Bouman, Suzanne Bona, Dolly Belmore, Marshall Burgess.
Correction
In the April 1 issue of
Lögberg-Heimskringla, do-
nors to the Future Fund Capi-
tal Campaign were listed.
One donation was listed in-
correctly.
Under the Friend cat-
egory (up to $499), the fol-
lowing donation should have
been listed as:
Eleanor Nordal In honour
of Jónína Bjarnason
Vestmann
We apologize for this er-
ror. It has been corrected for
the listing in the donor wall.