Lögberg-Heimskringla - 15.06.2013, Blaðsíða 1

LÖGBERG
HEIMSKRINGLA
The Icelandic Community Newspaper • 15 June 2013 • Number 12 / Númer 12 • 15. júní 2013
Publication Mail Agreement No. 40012014
photo: DaviD Collette
Victorious
Viking voyage
family reunion
Coping with violent storms
and swift currents / page 10
A Viking-themed family
reunion / page 6
INSIDE
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The quintessential self-made
man / page 5
photo Courtesy of GorDon reykDal
Recognizing
Gordon Reykdal
August 2, 2013
Links at the Lake Golf Course
Gimli, MB
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or by phone 1-866-564-2374In Support of Lögberg-Heimskringla
Freda Abrahamson was very active in the Leif Eiriksson Icelandic Club.
About 2001, Freda suffered
from a stroke that restricted
her activities; she had damaged
vision and to keep occupied,
she started knitting scarves
and toques and donating them
to the less fortunate, homeless
people of Calgary.
When Freda Abrahamson
passed away in December 2011,
several LEIC members decided
to keep alive her Scarf Angels
dream of providing warm
knitted items for the needy,
which Freda had done for many
years. Calgary’s Leif Eiriksson
Icelandic Club members, Carol
Blyth, Christine Stuart-Smith,
Margret Grisdale and Kelly
Flemming launched the project
early in 2012.
Wool and yarn was donated
by: Shelley McReynolds,
Paula Sceviour and Anne S.
Scarf Angel Knitters were:
Elsie Wiebe, Irene Wright,
Jane Zarecky, Madeline
Janzen, Maureen Coyne,
Kathy Hamilton, Doreen
Underschultz, Ron Baines,
Anne Dillon, and Anne S.
Cash donations from
Christine Lemaire-Laxdal were
used for bagging supplies and
wool. The Coordinator of the
project is Kelly Flemming
In December, the LEIC
knitters were able to donate 82
toque/scarf sets and numerous
single items to Woods Exit
Program, Inn From The
Cold, The Mustard Seed,
ESL (English as a Second
Language) immigrant students
and low income families in the
community.
In 2013 they will donate
20 toque/scarf sets to the
Homeless Veterans’ Madison
House and continue to support
Inn From The Cold and needy
families in the community.
Woods Exit Program is
a downtown storefront with
an outreach and mobile
van service. Committed to
supporting self-sufficiency by
co-ordinating resources, Exit
serves any young person who
is in need of support while
living on the streets of Calgary
or wants assistance for getting
off the streets. Typically the
age range is 12-24.
Inn from the Coldis
Calgary’s original and largest
emergency family shelter A
number of inter-denominational
churches, synagogues, mosques,
community associations and
organizations have come
together to provide emergency
shelter and resources for
Calgary’s homeless, operating
on a rotating basis, 365 days
a year, in communities across
Calgary.
The Mustard Seed Calgary,
with its innovative programs
and services at its downtown
and shelter locations, helps
homeless men and women
rebuild their lives.
The 15-unit Madison
House is Calgary’s first
affordable housing complex
that is dedicated to helping
ex-military personnel to get
off the streets into a home of
their own.
Kelly Flemming
Calgary, AB
Scarf Angels provide hands-on comfort
New Icelandic government
approved
Morgunblaðið – There
is a new Government of the
Progressive Party (PP) and
Independence Party (IP), led
by the former. The IP Party
Council and PP’s Central
Committee approved the
parties’ Government coll-
aboration. According to their
Government Platform, the EU
application process will be
halted and not resumed unless
after a national referendum
is held. The fishing fee will
be changed, the tax system
simplified and taxes lowered.
Also, the increase of value-
added tax on tourism will be
withdrawn. PP Chairman and
PM-to-be Sigmundur Davíð
Gunnlaugsson said that
his proposal for the party’s
ministerial appointments
would be decided at a meet-
ing of the Parliamentary
group, and that he expected
a new Government to take
over today at a Cabinet
Council meeting at the
President’s official residence
in Bessastaðir.
Continued on page 4
Election results
photo CreDit unknown
Scarves and toques handcrafted by the Scarf Angels, ready for delivery
At right: Freda at the INL convention in Gimli 2000
photo: MarGret GrisDale
Fara Heim:
the bay