MARCH 2020 - News for Members

Hello Members & Friends,
 
First of all, there will be no newsletter printed and mailed so we are sending this message instead and hope that if you know someone without email that you'll print this note and pass it along. The new Board met on the weekend and decided that printing and mailing a newsletter would be difficult since most print shops are currently closed.
 
Events: At our recent Board meeting, it was decided to cancel all upcoming Danish Club Events due to the uncertainty of the situation with the COVID-19 Pandemic. This means that the Andespil on April 19, the Birthday Party Dinner/Dance on May 23 and the St Hans Midsummer Celebration on June 21 are all cancelled. At the same time, we received a notice from the Nanaimo Parks & Recreation Department advising us that all event bookings at Bowen Park were cancelled so even if we had wanted to go ahead with the Birthday Party, that decision would make it impossible. We are hoping that things will settle down and return to some sort of normal before we start working on plans for the Harvest Party in October but we will assess the situation in August/September and make a decision at that time. Keep your fingers crossed!
 
Federation Conference & AGM: The Board of the Federation of Danish Associations in Canada made the decision to cancel their Conference & AGM planned for May 21 - 23 in Nanaimo. It was disappointing because we have all worked very hard to put the plans in place for a great conference. The 2021 Conference & AGM was planned for Toronto but the Federation Board decided to have their 2021 Conference & AGM here in Nanaimo since the plans are basically all in place. The new dates are May 20 - 23, 2021.
 
Heritage Book:  The Federation publishes their Heritage book each year, usually in connection with their Conference & AGM with the conference theme usually being the title of the book. This year will be a little different due to the absence of any conference & AGM so the Federation Board decided to go ahead and publish the book anyway using the theme of Knud Rasmussen. Next year, they will publish the 2021 Heritage Book in conjunction with the conference & AGM using the Nanaimo theme of "Vikings on the Island: We Came, We Saw, We Stayed" and that edition will feature all of the pictures, stories and history of Nanaimo Danes and Danes on the Island. If you are working on a story for the Heritage Book, please continue with that.
 
Board Members:  The newly elected Board of our Danish Club met on March 15 via Skype and, as per tradition, the Members that were elected made the following appointments for the Officers of the Club:​
 
Tom Hedekar           President
Carsten Krogh         Vice President
Lena Tsuji                 Secretary
Rebecca Taylor       Treasurer
John Jensen            Director
Louise Krogh            Director
Darlene O'Neill         Director
Hakon Philipsen      Director 
 
- On behalf of the Board,
  Cheers and STAY SAFE!
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  Tom Hedekar
  President