Welcome to Polar Star Lodge 5-472, Aurora, Illinois - Sons of Norway!
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News:
Our Sports Director has offered each of us a new walking challenge for 2021. The St. Francis Way in Italy, also known as the Camino di Francesco, is a superb walking trail inspired by the life of St
Francis of Assisi. If you accept the challenge you will have from February 1st until July 31st to complete the 342 mile pilgrimage. Refer to the January 2021 Newsletter for details. Contact Sports Director Jeri Lynn Baker with questions or to
register.
The January 2021 walking challenge ends January 31, 2021. Refer to the December 2020 Newsletter for details. Contact Sports Director Jeri Lynn Baker with questions or to register.
In celebration Sons of Norway's 125th anniversary, from November
2019 through mid-December 2020, Polar Star participated in a Virtual Walk from our meeting site in Montgomery IL to Minneapolis MN (401 miles), and
then on to Hamar Norway, location of the 2020 International Convention (3984 additional miles), for a grand total of 4385 miles. We counted all kinds of activity such as walking, biking,
swimming, and even miles tracked on our smart phones! If you had any record of your activities, you could count it back to November 1, 2019.
Since the August International SOFN Conference in August was postponed due to the COVID virus, we kept moving with a new challenge! The deadline was changed to December 15th for our virtual walk. We
reached the miles to Norway, and even walked back home again. So then we walked back to Hamar, Norway again by way of Minneapolis! We turned in all our monthly miles to Jerri Lynn!
Contact Sports Director Jeri Lynn Baker for additional
information.
Polar Star members as of
January 2020:
Current Events:
February 6, 2021 - Saturday - 10:00 a.m.
- Virtual Norwegian Baking
Class
- Barb Johnson will teach interested bakers how to create Norwegian
recipes that qualify for Part 2 of the Cooking Culture Medal. Interested bakers please send email to Barb to receive recipe ingredients and Zoom Meeting
instructions.
ALL OTHER POLAR STAR Events into 2021 have been CANCELLED due to Covid-19. Future scheduling will be determined by virus conditions and the Covid vaccine. We will keep you posted.
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