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After our very successful dinner and silent auction in April, the team began packing and preparing for this mission. We left on May 16th and arrived on the 17th. To say the least, it was a long journey. There were 15 members on the team including Peggy Perry and Arlys Williams (NP)from Chinook, Dr. Carly Robertson, Bev Hagen, Carole Crosby, Marilyn Granell from Havre, Diane Brown (RN), Patrick (PA) and Kathy Armstrong from Chester, Jan Driscoll from Stevensville, Tim (PT)and Mary Nielsen (RN),...
From the Heart of Montana to the Hearts of Tanzania fundraiser dinner, presentation, and silent auction will be on April 6 at the Boys and Girls Club of the Hi-Line located at 500 1st Avenue in Havre starting at 5 o'clock. The event will begin with Dr. Carley Robertson and Diane Brown, RN, giving a presentation on this medical mission. They both were on the mission in 2017. Following the presentation, the cowboy cocktail dinner will be served. A cowboy cocktail is smoked pulled pork, beans,...
This May a group of Montanans will once again make the journey to Tanzania as a part of a medical mission to support the Sakila Dispensary. Montanans have been making an impact in Sakila and surrounding villages for several years. In fact a house named Montana has been built on the property. This group includes doctors, physician assistants, nurses, emergency medical technicians, physical therapist, and support staff. In all there are will be 15 of us. This mission is made every two years from the Montana group. So how did this all get...
Our ancestral roots run deep in Norway. Three of our grandparents immigrated to the United States from Norway at the turn of the century. Two of the grandparents came as children with their entire family. In 1906, our paternal grandfather, Sivert Munson, came at the age of 21 with no other family members. We were always intrigued with his story and his family in Norway. It was always exciting at Christmas, as his family would send cards and letters to him. They even sent him a painting by a...
My last shot at giving you a shot of Danish Christmas. I hope you have enjoyed yourselves with my not so formal introduction to our culture during the holidays. It has not been structured and thus this last piece is bits and scraps left over from the other articles. During the holy day month Danes – to a varying degree – get ready for Christmas. A lot of the getting ready has to do with not too healthy food. I know how many Montanans love pancakes. We do pancakes. Imagine if your pancake was...
Story submitted by, Two Norwegian Girls BCJ News Hey. I'm back, the crazy Dane who was in your paper last week as well. Today I'll write a little about Christmas Eve. Our family starts on the 23rd. We have rice porridge with cinnamon-sugar and a big scoop of butter in the middle. To that, we drink Christmas Beer called Nisseøl. It is so sweet and with 1.5 percent alcohol so the children have a little as well. When we have eaten all we can, the rest is put in a big clay bowl and we all take the...
Christmas is not the same without a good old Christmas dinner. However, the dinner might be different after all. A Danish dinner for example or an entire Danish Christmas. First of all. Danes don't do fake Christmas trees. How do I know you might ask? Well, I am Danish. My only connection to Montana is a brief visit in the summer of 1994. My wife was so lucky that a fantastic family in Montana said yes to have her as an exchange student in 1990/91, and we were back to visit. Since then we have...
In the next three weeks, Lars Kimer will be sharing articles about Christmas in Denmark. Lars lives in Gundsømagle, Denmark, which is a small village about 25 miles east of Copenhagen. For the past 15 years, he has been a journalist for the Dagbladet Roskilde in Roskilde, Denmark which is about the size of Great Falls. When we were there this past summer, my sister and I went with Lars on a Saturday to events he was covering for the newspaper. Lars is married to Mette and they have two...
The Scandinavian Christmas tradition is filled with an extensive assortment of cakes and cookies. With just butter, sugar, eggs, flour and some spices, an elegant variety of treats is created. The recipes are sometimes simple, sometimes elaborate, but the outcomes are always delicious. There are seven types of Norwegian Christmas cookies. Norwegian Christmas cookies fall into three types: baked (like Berlinerkranse, sandbakkeles and pepperkaker), cooked on irons (like krumkaker and goro) and...
