Free Museum Day in Kellogg

Free Museum Day

and Pie Social

Sunday, September 12^th

at The Staff House Museum

820 McKinley Ave. – Kellogg

 

Museum open 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Pie Social   11:00am-2:00pm

Please join us for the museum’s oldest fund raiser and social event.

SEEKING SCANDINAVIANS

A study of the Coeur d’ Alene Community, 1910-2010 Presented by Sons of Norway In Cooperation With Museum of North Idaho, North Idaho College Library,Coeur d’Alene Library,Human Rights Education Institute,Northwest Council of Boys Scouts of America,Area Scandinavian-Americans

In Recognition of 100 Years of Sons of Norway in CDA & the First International Sons of Norway Convention staged in Idaho. August 29-Sep. 1, 2010.

VELKOMMEN!
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO JOIN US IN THE MANY OPEN EVENTS DESIGNED TO HIGHLIGHT SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENNIAL OF THE LOCAL LODGE AND TO WELCOME SONS OF NORWAY MEMBERS FROM ALL OVER THE U.S., CANADA AND NORWAY.

Apr 1-Oct 31 Nordic Roots Run Deep. Museum Of North Idaho. Local Scandinavian heritage on display. See information on back re dates for special demonstrations & exhibits.

Aug 02-Sep 03 Scandinavian Books & Cultture, CDA Public Library, Lower Level.

Aug 04, 11, 18, 25 Scandinavian Story Hour, August Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., stories from Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden. CDA Library.

Aug 23-Sep 03 Window Into Norway. Display of Norwegian books and artifacts. Molstead Library, NIC Campus.

Aug 29-Sep 01 SONS OF NORWAY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 2010, CDA Resort. Only elected delegates speak at meetings or vote on issues. Several events open to public. They are listed in this publication.

Aug 29 A Century of Cars. Mini Car Show covering 100 years, Circular Parking Lot by Clock Tower, CDA Resort. Noon to 7 p.m. Museum open 1-3:30. Fjord Horses (back side)

Aug 30-Sep 1 Norwegian Folk Art Exhibit. CDA Resort, room near Dockside. Handmade crafts by Sons of Norway members including Rosemaling, woodcarving, Hardanger Embroidery and more. 8/30, noon to 7 p.m.; 8/31, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; 9/01, 8 a.m.-noon.

Aug 30 Hiking With Vikings: A Centennial Trail Trek.
Any distance along Lake CDA & Spokane River starting at CDA Resort. Joint Centennial Celebration for local Sons of Norway Lodge & Boys Scouts of America. Registration 6-7 p.m. or online at www.sofn2-011.org. $5 fee includes patch featuring Viking Ship. Scout Alumni, Convention Delegates, friends and families all welcome.

Aug 31 Local Scandinavian Authors. Community Room , CDA Library, 2 p.m. Keith Dahlberg, Yvonne Deitz, Susan Hagen Nipp, Sheila Wood. Glimpse their lives & their stories. Children welcome; separate activities first half, all join in 2nd half. Scandinavian Coffee & Cookies follow. Books for sale.

Aug 31 Mudgy & Millie Walk, 3:45 p.m., Statue #2 outside CDA Library, Goody Bags and Moose Memos at statue stops with required registration (no fee).

Aug 31 Variety Show, CDA Resort, 7:30 p.m. Rod Erickson, Bressler Trio, Julie Powell. & more. $15. Reservations, 773-4401. Tickets at door if still available.

NORDIC ROOTS RUN DEEP
An Exhibit of Local Scandinavian Influence
Museum of North Idaho * April 1-October 30.
Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Special Hours noted
Special Scandinavian Demonstrations & Exhibits
Unless otherwise noted, all are Sat., 2-4 p.m.

8/07 Dennis Johnsons’ Norwegian Fjord Horses ( live, Mullan & NW Blvd.). Museum: Norwegian cookies and chilled fruit soup. Judy Stebbins.

8/29 Sunday, 1-3:30 p.m. Fjord Horses ( Mare & Foal, Mullan & NW Blvd.) Museum: Finnish Weaving, Johansen Textiles, Mullan, ID

8/30 Museum Open 5-8 p.m.

9/18 Bit ‘O Sweden. Swedish cookies, cloths, & costumes. Ebba Ostrom & Friends.

10/02 Lefse Baking. Jan Olsen.

10/09 LEIF ERIKSON DAY. Johnson Fjord Horses (Mullan & NW Blvd.)MUSEUM’S ART FROM THE HEART EVENT: Woven Hearts, Viking Magnet; Pamla Silk. Heart-shaped waffles, Rostads.

10/16 Abelskiver, the Danish Delight. Inger Olsen.

10/30 Krum Kake. Asbjorn Rostad.

Sandpoint Kiwanis Holds Annual Bazaar

Sandpoint, ID ― The 2010 All Bonner County Bazaar and Craft Sale will be held at the Sandpoint Community Hall in downtown Sandpoint, 204 S. First Avenue (across from the Courthouse), on Friday and Saturday, October 8-9. Hours for the traditional autumn event are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. There is no admission fee.

Quality craft vendors will present cottage crafts including jewelry, home décor, candles, clothing, artwork, holiday items, soaps and lotions, honey, candy, greeting cards, children’s books, chair massages and more. Kootenai Kountry Kettle & Dutch Bakery of Kootenai, ID will serve a lunch menu both days, as well as a variety of bakery items.

The event is sponsored by Sandpoint Kiwanis Club, an affiliate of Kiwanis International, a global service organization. Chartered in 1927, Kiwanis was the first service club in Sandpoint. Coined from an American Indian expression, “Nunc Kee-wanis,” the name Kiwanis means “we trade” or “we share our talents.” Kiwanians are volunteers dedicated to changing the world through service to children and communities. Proceeds from the Annual Bazaar will help to provide scholarships for area high school students.

For further information concerning the Bazaar or Sandpoint Kiwanis, please contact Bob Camp at 263-5809.

George Sibley to show film on the Fire of 1910

Film maker George Sibley will return to Bonners Ferry to show his most recent project “Ordeal by Fire”, a documentary commemorating the fires of 1910. The film will be shown on Thursday August 26 at 7 p.m. at the Museum Community Events Center next to the Museum on Main Street. Sibley will introduce the film and answer questions following the showing. A donation of $10 for museum education programs is suggested.

The fires which raged across the panhandle of Idaho and the mountains of western Montana in August of 1910 "blew up" into the biggest forest fire in US history. America had seen big fires before, but this was the first time that a serious effort to fight such fires was attempted. In 1910 the federal government, mostly in the form of the US Forest Service, was committed to conservation, and it sent a virtual fire army of 10,000 men into the woods. This massive campaign started out as hundreds of smaller efforts to fight fires kindled by lightning and steam locomotives and people across the Northern Rockies in July. There were bad fires everywhere that unusually dry year, but the mountain west was hit especially hard. Fires raged from St. Maries, Idaho across the Bitterroot Mountains and over to Glacier Park and the Blackfeet Indian reservation.

“Ordeal By Fire” is an important Idaho-Montana story with real national interest.

The hour-long film features interviews with historians and scientists as well as some fascinating family stories, illustrated with period newsreels and photographs. A famous Idaho component of the Big Burn is the story of how Ranger Ed Pulaski of Wallace saved most of his crew from being overrun by the fires by keeping them in a mine tunnel on the West Fork of Placer Creek. This is one of the highlights of Sibley’s film, which he recreated with local folks standing in for Pulaski’s crew.

George Sibley has been a film-maker for over 40 years, mostly making educational films and documentaries. Last year (2009) his film “Shadows of David Thompson” was shown in Bonners Ferry.