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January Calendar
03 Handwork Group no meeting
today.
04 Convention Committee Planning
7:30 p.m. All interested are invited
to attend. 1st Lutheran Church
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13 Lutefisk Chairmen Meeting 10 a.m.
@ Trinity
17 Handwork Group 1:30 p.m. at the
home of Shirley Grondahl, 1224
Prospect Place, Bismarck
19 Social (see below)
25 Business Meeting 7 p.m. 1st Luth
27 48th Annual Lutefisk at Trinity by
Sverdrup 2 p.m.—6 p.m. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Social Date: January 19
Location: Bismarck Eagles Club
Time: 6:15 p.m. - $15/meal
Menu: Chicken Breasts in Gravy,
Mashed Potatoes, Peas, Creamy Coleslaw
Program: Fabian Lunell, a Swedish
Exchange Student attending Century High
School will share with us about his family
and home in Sweden and life with his
host family. They are Corbett and
Claudia Schollmeyer of rural Bismarck.
Dance Music: Jim Geiger
Reservations: By Friday, January 12
Call Nanc Skaret, 258-4703 or e-mail
[email protected] (unless you have
established your “regular” status)
Sverdrup Nyheter
From the President
Godt Nyttår alle sammen! Happy New Year
everyone! For many of us, it’s a time to reflect
on the past and look towards the future. Each day
brings us a new beginning. What happened and
what might happen? Did we learn anything from
the past that we can use? Can we and will we
change anything in the coming year?
Tradition calls for us to make New Year’s
Resolutions; in a light hearted manner of course!
I’ve never thought much about that, but if some of
you need help, I can offer some friendly advice and what I’d like to
see you do differently! Uff da! All kidding aside, we have so much to
look forward too.
Our 300+ Sverdrup lodge members have 300+ wants and needs for
2018. Some will be our choice and some will not. Life has a way of
moving in directions that we didn’t choose from time to time.
That brings me to the often quoted and sometimes framed; Serenity
Prayer. A Google search will find many versions; some attributed to
an American Reinhold Niebuhr. But I think it can be summarized to
“Take it one day at a time, assess the situation, change courses if you can
or accept it as change, knowing this life is short and we look toward the
final destination with faith in our hearts.”
Put your best foot forward in 2018 and make the best of your life
and help as many people as can. But also learn to accept help with a
gracious heart and always say “Please and Thank You”. Hadde bra
og takk for meg.
Jerry Saude
Volume 49, Issue 1
January 2018
Page 2 Sverdrup Nyheter
Why Life Insurance After the Kids are Grown and the Mortgage
is Paid? While many of today's seniors have saved for retirement, many are
coming up short of funds or the fear of running out of money.
Interest rates have been low and people are living longer than ever
before.
Let’s look at Ole and Lena. They both are drawing Social Security
checks, Ole has a pension and they have modest savings but that
has been drained with higher expenses every year. The condo is
paid for, they are driving a 5-year-old car and finances are mostly
manageable.
A few years later Ole gets sick, he ends up in the nursing home
and passes away a year later. Poor Lena, she is sad and lonely. She
also has lost one Social Security check, she only gets half of Ole’s
pension, the savings is gone because it was needed for the nursing
home bills. The car is now getting older and the condo fees and
taxes keep going up.
The good news is Ole had life insurance with Sons of Norway!
Lena will be fine financially. The lost income can be replaced, the
savings has been restored and Lena can afford a new car. She still
misses Ole but doesn’t have the burden of financial worry.
By the way, the kids are so appreciative that dad was looking out
for mom even after he was gone. Lena is welcome to see the
grandkids whenever she wants but she can continue to live in her
own world and not move in with any of them.
Contact your Sons of Norway Financial Benefits Counselor
to provide an “inevitable gain,” no matter when one dies.
Ann Krause, FIC, LUTCF
Financial Benefits Counselor
Sons of Norway
701-720-2755
Email: [email protected]
The Sverdrup Nyheter is published once a month by Sverdrup
#107 Sons of Norway Lodge, P.O. Box 1912, Bismarck, ND 58502.
There is no charge for the newsletter. The newsletter is available
on our website. For address changes or questions contact:
[email protected]; Website: www.sofnbismarck.com
Editor Audrey Solheim 223-7891
President Jerry Saude 224-0963
Vice President Dick Hansen 663-8850
Secretary Claudia Berg 222-8238
Financial Secretary Barbara Holwegner 255-1390
Ass’t Financial Secretary Addie Thiede 224-8392
Treasurer Wayne Granfor 734-6370
Sunshine Lady - Cards Julie Roe 223-4196
Financial Benefits Counselor Ann Krause 852-5508
Reservations Nanc Skaret 258-4703
January
Gratulerer med dagen
Catherine M Bergan 1
Virginia Nelsen 1
Daryl Cordell Gronfur 2
Vicki L Olson 2
Howard E Hansen 5
Margaret A Hanson 5
Julie C Schwartz 5
Victoria A Nelson 6
Lars Oynes 6
Rodney A Bakke 7
Conrad Ivan Jordheim 11
Robert W Mc Callum 12
Sonna M Anderson 13
Merton A Johnsrud 14
Erik M Hjemvik 16
Karen L Fenster 17
Richard K Bjornson 19
June M Sakshaug 19
Judith P Johnson 20
Ronald E Fox 21
Bernice M Bensen 22
Alice O Falkenstein 23
Susan M Janke 24
Mildred A Nicholson 25
Freeman M J Mjolsness 26
Elisha Anne Placek 27
Karen A Vossler 27
Steven K Hamar 28
Earl Nelson 29
Shirley J Nelson 30
Duane C Svanes 30
Page 3 Volume 48, Issue 10 October 2017
Membership Information Single Membership—$60.00
Family Membership—$95.00 (one address)
Single Golden—$42.00 (there will be no additional Golden
Memberships after 1/1/2018)
One Golden/One Regular $78.00
Both Golden—$60.00
The local lodge and the district will each receive $14 from each
new and renewal membership.
New member applications may be turned in to Barbara
Holwegner, Financial Secretary for processing, include your
check for the appropriate amount made payable to Sons of
Norway. Barb’s address: 1503 S Washington Street,
Bismarck, ND 58504. Our total Membership to date is 324
This and That Save the BOX TOPS from grocery items for Dorothy
Moses School. Save your stamps for TUBFRIM, to aid
children’s programs in Norway.
Volunteer to bring cookies to a social. COOKIES
The person to call is Joyce Harnden 663-7050
or e-mail [email protected]
Call a friend to ride along to an upcoming event.
In Memory Marge Peterson, Golden Member
Margaret Nolte, Member 11 years _____________________________________________________________________________
Sons of Norway Salvation Army Bell
Ringers at Hobby Lobby Candace, Bjorn and Vern
Convention Planning 2018
Committees Convention Chair Jerry Saude has called a committee
meeting for Thursday January 4. Come see and
participate. We will meet for one hour and then
schedule the next meetings as needed each month.
Tubfrim There are many ways in which we are asked to assist
our fellow human beings who are in need.
Participation in the Tubfrim program is one of the
more simple yet successful ways to do just that.
Tubfrim is an organization in Norway that resells
cancelled stamps and donates the proceeds to help
children with disabilities. Sons of Norway is proud to
support Tubfrim in their work to support children in
need.
The lodge extends a thank you to Jeannette Radig for
her years of service in heading up Sverdrup’s Tubfrim
program and welcomes Erling Olson as our new
chairman! Bring your cancelled stamps to a social!
Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2018 Page 3
Christmas Social Dec 15, 2017 Group Picture Below
January 2018
Sons of Norway - Sverdrup 4-107 1026 S 3rd #3
Bismarck, ND 58504-6398
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