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Until 1 September
Gimli, MB: New Iceland Heritage
Museum: Through the Eye of the
Needle, The Quilt Art of Heather Lair, a
Retrospective and Sale. 108 94 First Ave.
Monday – Friday 10 - 4. Saturday and
Sunday 1 - 4.
Until 11 November
Victoria, BC: The Royal BC Museum
Presents: Vikings, the first North American
stop for this exhibition, Vikings challenges
our commonly held beliefs and the Vikings
emerge in a fascinating new light. Insights
into Viking domestic life, death rituals, the
significance of their craft, the power of
mythology and the symbolism of their ships
are explored in this interactive exhibition.
See hundreds of rare artifacts – jewelry,
swords, axes, and clothing – some rare. In
Victoria, BC, 1-888-447-7977.
Saturday and Sunday 16 - 17 August
Seattle, WA: Icelandic Club of Greater
Seattle. Visit our booth at Viking Days at the
Nordic Heritage Museum.
Sunday 17 August
Markerville, AB: Our annual Show 'n
Shine. This year we will offer a Creamery
Market featuring some of our Christmas in
Markerville vendors and some new ones.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Show 'n' Shine: see the
streets shine vintage style. Creamery
Market Shop: for that special gift in the
Creamery courtyard. Miniature Market:
Experience Markerville in 1907. 728-3006
or visit historicmarkerville.com.
Sunday 24 August
Seattle, WA: Icelandic Club of Greater
Seattle. Join us for our summer picnic at
Lynndale Park, starts at 11 a.m.
Sunday 31 August
Budd Lake, NJ: 30th Annual Scandinavian
Fest ‘14 produced by Scandinavian Fest,
Inc. A Smörgåsbord of Fun. Always seeking
food and craft vendors, entertainment,
presenters, organizations, and relevant
kids’ activities with a Scandinavian theme.
The Sunday of (US) Labor Day Weekend,
rain or shine. Sunday, 10 a.m - 6 p.m. Held
at The NJ Vasa Park, 1 Wolfe Rd., Budd
Lake, NJ 07828 USA. Program, updates,
vendors, discounted advanced-sale tickets,
and performer info at: www.ScanFest.org.
Contact: info@ScanFest.org. 610-417-1483.
Tuesday 16 September
Toronto, ON: Icelandic Canadian Club of
Toronto annual general meeting. 7 p.m.
135 Bathurst St. Free parking in front of
the house after 6 p.m. Open to all ICCT
members. RSVP your attendance to
KarenHelena@icct.info.
Winnipeg, MB: The Icelandic Canadian
Frón AGM and Icelandic Class registration
at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre, 764
Erin St. Registration for Icelandic classes
will start at 6:30, followed by the Annual
General Meeting at 7 p.m. Everyone
welcome.

Sunday 28 September
Winnipeg, MB: Come join us for a delicious
Sunday Brunch at the Scandinavian Centre,
764 Erin St. Hosted by the Icelandic
Canadian Frón. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. $15
for adults, $8 for children ages 7-12, and
ages 6 and under free. Everyone welcome.
Saturday 20 September
Gimli, MB: The 2014 Tombola will be held
at Minerva Hall. Doors will be open at 6:30
p.m. and the Tombola will begin at 7 p.m.
We would appreciate any donations for
both the adult and children's Tombola
tables (cash donations are also welcomed).
Items can be dropped off at 29 1st Ave.
(Lynnette and Gary Sisterson). If no one is
home, donations can be left on the front
porch. Please contact me if you are able
to volunteer for set up, hopefully on Friday
September 19th and or Saturday evening
(the evening of the Tombola). The Tombola
is earlier than usual this year, I would
appreciate it if you could contact me if you
are able to contribute baking for the lunch,
which is served during the evening.
30 September to 4 October
MINOT, ND: Norsk Høstfest, North
America's largest Scandinavian festival
kicks off Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, with
a 7 p.m. opening ceremony followed
by the Høstfest Eve Concert, this year
featuring Doc Severinsen with the Minot
Symphony Orchestra. Besides great
entertainment, Norsk Høstfest will spotlight
Scandinavian culture, artisan crafts, Nordic
shopping, nightly dances, and of course,
great authentic Scandinavian cuisine.
Tickets on sale now with VIP seats
priced at $82 and regular seats at $62.
Høstfest Eve Concert tickets are $36.
Tickets online at hostfest.com, by calling
701-852-2368, or in person at 1020 S.
Broadway, Minot ND 58701.
October
Watch for details of the 125 years
Íslendingadagurinn event. Composer
Kenley Kristofferson’s commissioned
work reflecting the Icelandic immigrant
experience. www.icelandicfestival.com
Saturday 4 October
Edmonton, AB: Leifur Eiriksson Dinner.
Entertainment by Bill Bourne. More
Information to come in September.
Sunday 5 October
Calgary, AB: Leif Eiriksson Icelandic
Club Of Calgary Fall Feast, details to be
determined.
Sunday 19 October
Edmonton, AB: Annual General Meeting –
1 p.m. at the Dutch Canadian Club, Nordic
Room.
Sunday 19 October
Winnipeg, MB: The Sólskrikjan Choir is
hosting its second Haustfagnaður Autumn
Celebration Concert 2:30 at the Bardal
Funeral Centre, 3030 Notre Dame Avenue.
Tickets: Individual $15, family $20 with a
reception following.
Saturday 29 November
Calgary, AB: LEIC’s Yuletide in Iceland,
Scandinavian Centre.
26 to 31 July, 2015
Camp Veselka, near Gimli, MB: Icelandic
Camp Íslenskur Sumarbuðír. Save the
date: Sunday July 26th - Friday July 31st,
2015. For more information on how to light
this spark in your kids please visit www.
icelandiccamp.com or email Brad Hirst at
icelandiccamp@gmail.com. Follow us on
twitter @IcelandicCamp.
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Nordic
Festival – Winnipeg, MB
24 October to 1 November
Oct. 24 & 25, 8 pm: Centennial Concert
Hall: WSO Masterworks. Sigrun Plays
Sibelius: Nordic Festival Opener. Tickets
available at the WSO box office.
Oct 26, 3 pm: Westminster United
Church, 745 Westminster Ave. Winnipeg
Philharmonic Choir, Yuri Klaz, director.
Tickets available at the Philharmonic box
office 204-896-7445, www.thephil.ca or at
McNally Robinson.
Oct 27, 7:30 pm: Westworth United
Church, 1750 Grosvenor Ave. University
of Manitoba Orchestra, Julian Pellicano,
conductor. Tickets available at the door.
Oct 28, 7:30 pm: McNally Robinson
Booksellers Nordic Music Roundtable
with Alexander Mickelthwate and James
Manishen (free event).
Oct 29, 8 pm: Winnipeg Art
Gallery Winnipeg Chamber Music Society.
Tickets available at the WSO box office.
Oct 30, 7 pm: Cinematheque, 100 Arthur
St. The Hunt (Jagten). Selected as the
Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language
Film at the 86th Academy Awards.
Cinematheque, regular admission.
Oct. 31 & Nov. 1, 8 pm: Centennial Concert
Hall, 555 Main St.: WSO Masterworks.
Víkingur Plays Grieg: Nordic Festival Finale.
Kenley Kristofferson: Morgun Grieg: Piano
Concerto in A minor Nielsen: Symphony
No. 4 “The Inextinguishable”. The opening
notes of Grieg’s Piano Concerto introduce
a romantic musical journey that has
placed this work among the most beloved
of all. Exciting young Icelander Víkingur
Ólafsson will reveal its treasures as we
close our week-long Nordic Festival.
Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s Fourth
Symphony is a triumph for timpani, and
an incredibly exciting orchestral display.
Manitoba composer Kenley Kristofferson’s
Morgun honours the 125th anniversary of
Manitoba’s Icelandic community in Gimli.
Tickets available at the WSO box office.
Festival Passes available at WSO box office
starting at $125. Call 204-949-3999.
Nov. 1: Dinner and A Symphony Event:
Viking-Icelandic Cuisine. The opening
notes of Grieg’s Piano Concerto introduce
a romantic musical journey that has placed
this work among the most beloved of all.
Exciting young Icelander Víkingur Ólafsson
will reveal its treasures as we close our
festival. Details to follow.
Thursdays
Lestrarfélagið Gleym-Mér-Ei, Est’d 1996
Winnipeg, MB: Icelandic Collection
University of Manitoba. 7 p.m. (except May
which is 6:30 p.m.) Everyone welcome to
any evening. Contact: Linda F. Sigurdson
Collette – silverflash@shaw.ca
Sep. 25: Winnie the Bear – M. A. Appleby.
Oct. 30: Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Nov. 27: Film – TBA
Jan. 29: From the Mouth of the Whale
– Sjon
Feb. 26: Afi’s Silver Pocket Watch – Eric
Sigurdson
Mar 26: The Real Middle Earth – Brian
Bates
Apr. 23: Looking Back Over My Shoulder
– Rosa S. Benediktson
May 28: The Gospel of Loki – Joanne
Harris
SPORTS
Saturday 7 September
Chicago, IL: The 9th Greater Chicago
Icelandic Open – at 12:00 p.m. It will be the
same place, Hilldale Golf Club in Hoffman
Estate, and same price, $35. We have sold
out last three years. Trip to Iceland for a ‘hole
in one’ and lots of other goodies.
ICELANDIC CLASSES
Tuesdays
Winnipeg, MB: The Icelandic Canadian
Frón is offering Icelandic language classes
at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre, 764
Erin St. Registration at 6:30 Tuesday
September 16. Fee for 10 week session
will be $40 for members, $45 for non-
members. Classes start September 23.
Contact Kendra at kensuloa@mts.net
Wednesdays
Arborg, MB: Meet to speak Icelandic, 3
p.m. Molasopi at Eldhús restaurant at the
Arborg Hotel. No pressure.
Gimli, MB: Kaffitími (coffee time) in Gimli
takes place at 3 p.m. each Wednesday,
meeting at Amma’s Tea Room, Waterfront
Centre. No signup and no teacher. Drop
ins welcome; the only fee is the price of
your cup of coffee. There is only one rule:
you need to speak Icelandic in order to
participate in the chat around the table. If
you just want to listen at first that’s fine, too.
Third Thursday
Arborg, MB: Arborg Hotel lounge, 8 p.m.,
Kaffitími for those who want to learn words
or phrases. No pressure.
Events
Sports
Icelandic lasses
Recent donations to Betel Home Foundation
BETEL HOME FOUNDATION – CHAPEL FUND
BETEL HOME FOUNDATION – BUILDING AND MEMORIAL FUND
Falcon Books donated by Dr. I. Olafson
J. Roy & June Gilbart, Selkirk, MB $50.00
Lakeview Dental, Gimli, MB $100.00

In Memory of Nettie Melnick
Ronald & Eva Joss, Winnipeg, MB $40.00
Ken & Micheline Lovenuk, Oxdrift, ON $50.00
In Memory of Daniel Melnick
Town of Winnipeg Beach, Winnipeg Beach, MB $50.00
Ingrid Bennett, Gimli, MB $50.00
Ronald & Eva Joss, Winnipeg, MB $40.00
Donation to Room 309 Betel Selkirk
Julie A. Clarke, Stonewall, MB $2500.00
In Memory of Dorothy(Jackson) Bateman
Doris McCleery, Kars, ON $25.00
In Memory of Margorie Sine
Mel Sine, Warren, MB $101.25
Margaret & Roy Chartrand, Woodlands, MB $25.00
In Memory of Walter(Roy) Doyle
CUPE Local #3206, Inwood, MB $50.00
David & Fran Booker, Beulah, MB $25.00
In Memory of Jennie Dann
Walter & Angeline Pashnicki, Brockville, ON $100.00
L-H features this series of photographic mysteries in
conjunction with Nelson Gerrard’s Silent Flashes project,
which explores early photography among Icelandic immigrants
and their descendants in North America.
Any successful solutions will be published.
To obtain further information on the Silent Flashes project
or to provide input, contact Nelson Gerrard at (204) 378-2758
or eyrarbakki@hotmail.com, or by mail at Box 925, Arborg,
MB R0C 0A0.
Check out the Silent Flashes website and photo archive at
www.sagapublications.com.
Do you know these people?
This young couple (likely with Gimli connections) had this
portrait taken at the J. H. Clarke studio in Selkirk just
before 1900.
PHOTO MYSTERY
Mary Anne Appleby will be the guest. She
will discuss her book, Winnie the Bear
which tells the story of Lieutenant Harry
Colebourn who bought a bear cub one
hundred years ago at the train station
in White River. He took her overseas at
the start of WWI and then donated her to
the London Zoo in 1919. He named her
Winnie after his hometown of Winnipeg.
Christopher Robin and his father visited
Winnie at the Zoo, where she was a star
attraction, and he named her Winnie-the-
Pooh. He then named his toy bear after
her. She became the inspiration for A. A.
Milne's classic children's stories. Mary
Anne will also talk about her family's
connection to the Colebourn family and
the role of independent publishing in the
changing world of books.
Snorri West
... continued on page 12
(b) At 10:30 we drove
to the Town of Lockeport
(population 800). In the 1880s
nine Icelandic families moved
there to live, including my
great-grandfather, Erlendur
Huskuldsson and his wife
Gudlaug Stefansdottir (1835-
1919). The memorial cairn
dedicated in 2000 is at the
Lewis Huskilson house.
We then visited Little Mac
Huskilson who showed the
kids his 11 antique cars. This
was a hit. Icelanders like old
cars. We then visited Vicki
Huskilson in her new craft
shop called Tides of Time.
They saw Crescent Beach
which used to be on the back
of the $50 Canadian bill.
(c) At noon we went
to Shelburne which was
settled by the United Empire
Loyalists during the American
Revolution. I told them about
the Book of Negroes by
Lawrence Hill and the movie
being made. I took them to see
the Huskilson drive-through
funeral home. Erlendur made
caskets and five generations
later the family is still in the
undertaking business. We
had lunch at Tim Hortons.
Hilmár wants to open a Tim
Hortons in Iceland. Because
they have WiFi, Kristján was
able to open the current Book
of Icelanders and found out
he is my 11 generation cousin.
Hilmár also fits into our family
tree. What fun.
(d) Back to Halifax. Two-
hour drive. Stopped at Bob
and the Boys in Hebbville for
an ice cream. I did my radar
scene performance which they
though was hysterical. I hold
my coffee mug up as a speeder
is going by me and they think
I am a radar cop. They slam
on their brakes. Straight to
the Maritime Museum of the
Atlantic. The kids are great
Titanic fans. There are some
artifacts there.
(e) At 6 p.m. we all met
at Wilham’s Fish and Chip
Restaurant in the Hydrostone
Community. Margaret
MacDonald and her nephew
Stephen, Phyllis Parker and
Myra Jerome joined us. They
have the best fish in the city.
Back to my house for more
apple pie and ice cream.
This time it is frozen and not
like soup. They sat in my
coloured lawn chairs. The
kids entertained with beautiful
Icelandic songs. Then we
visited the Titanic gravesites.
(f) Myra/Phyllis insisted
that I (not them) take them
downtown to the bar scene for
the rest of the night. I flatly
said no. The kids were in bed
by 9:30. No partying that night.
8. Saturday, July 12,
2014. Departure Date
(a) Sleep in till 9. I am
getting so soft at the end.
(b) Breakfast at Cousins
Restaurant. I said I picked this
place as we were newly found
cousins.
(c) 10:30. Seaport Market.
I took the kids down to our
city market. There were
thousands of people there. We
met my good friend. Barbara
Mulroney, the czarina who
runs Julian’s Pastry shop in
the market. She took us up to
the roof of the market to get a
fine panoramic view of Halifax
Harbour. The weather could
not have been any better.
(d) 12 noon. Drop off at
Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth
where there are 500 shops.
They were given three hours
free time to get away from me.
(e) We visited Cintimani,
the Icelandic shop on Spring
Garden Road. The Icelanders
were in Spain. After a mango
smoothie at McDonalds, we
walked around the Halifax
Public Gardens.
(f) I asked what they
wanted for their last supper.
They said pizza. We went to
Salvadors in the Hydrostone
Community. This has got to
be the best pizza in town. We
devoured two large ones.
(g) 7 p.m. We drove to the
airport playing Icelandic folk
songs on my radio. The kids
were singing their hearts out.
We said our goodbyes and I
gave them each a reproduction
of one of my paintings. I took
them to the ArtPort Gallery
in the airport where I sell my
paintings with nine artists.
Three of the kids had a 10
p.m. flight to Keflavík. Signý
went to Ottawa to visit her
grandparents.
(g) I drove home alone. I
had such a good time with these
fine kids. I wished them all the
best. They make me so proud
of my Icelandic heritage!
He was made to publicly apologize to the community for his
aggressive actions, but Captain Kennedy privately praised him
for standing his ground.
All of the cousins were excited to spend time on the original
“homestead”, Árnastaðir at Arnes, which has been in the family
since the early 1900s. Our parents spent considerable time on
the beach at Árnastaðir while growing up; and although I don’t
remember, I was often there as a baby. The one-hundred acre
property on the lake is still owned and used by the Borgford family.
We all took in the Icelandic Parade in Gimli and finished our
visit with a family supper. As I said goodbye to each of my new-
found cousins, I asked them for their highlights of the weekend.
Each had the same answer – getting to know their relatives and
sharing the family history. Thomas from Virginia, one of the
cousins, has personally invited each of us to visit his home.
Similar invitations came from all the cousins who had now
formed a bond that will last a lifetime.
The ten first cousins attending the event were: Karen Botting
from Winnipeg, Thor Borgford from Vancouver, Solveig Christie
from Calgary, Brian Borgford from Calgary, twins Paul and
Richard Crogan from Washington State and Oregon, Sue Toupal
from Oregon, Gudrun Frances Vertucci from New York State,
Louise Pesnicak from Virginia, and Thomas Pesnicak from
Virginia. In most cases, loyal spouses attended and nodded
politely during all the family history discussions. They learned
that they were IBM (Icelandic By Marriage) and were absorbed
into the family fold.
Everyone returned home much richer for the experience.
Bjorgford family
... continued from page 11
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Services produce more than export of goods
State Radio News—For the first time in Iceland's history,
the export of services is producing more income for the national
economy than the export of goods. Within the former category the
most important contribution is from tourism. In the first half there
was a trade deficit of ISK 2.4 billion (US$ 20.8M). The deficit can
mainly be explained by two factors: The lower value of seafood
products and lower aluminium price than for the same period last
year. “This deficit results especially from the disappointing capelin
season, which produced less income than last year. It is also caused
by the relatively low price of our chief export products,” said Ásgeir
Jónsson, docent in Economics at the University of Iceland. The
heaviest factor in this regard was the decreasing price of aluminium.
“In the longer view this shows that we have not managed to increase
product exports after the collapse.” This has been unsuccessful even
though the króna exchange rate has remained at a historical low. On
the other hand, the export of services increases, especially because
of tourism. “The export income comes from there. The result is that
for the first time in the history of the country, the export of services
produces more than the export of goods. Economic growth over the
last one to two years has been especially driven by tourism. This then
has diverse ripple effects domestically." The trade deficit affects the
króna exchange rate. "It is established that if we don't manage to
increase exports, but we are increasing consumption domestically
with higher wages, etc., this naturally jeopardizes the króna exchange
rate over the long term,” said Jónsson. The outcome is not of concern
over the short term. “However, in general, it is of concern for the
nation that we have not managed to increase exports more than we
have currently seen.”
Reprinted with permission from Icelandic News Briefs,
published by KOM PR
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