Souris Valley Danish Society

The Souris Valley Danish Society was organized in 2000 and has a membership of thirty. Lively monthly meetings are held on the second Monday of each month in the Son’s of Norway Room of the Scandinavian Heritage Center located at 1020 South Broadway in Minot, ND. Lunch is served by the members of the society.


Officers for 2008-2009

• President Neil Zimmerman 701-624-5682
• Vice President Mike Knoop
• Secretary Pam Orth
• Treasurer Lillian Vannett
• Membership Chairman Janie Plummer 701-839-5802
• Program Chairman Marion Johnson

Purposes and Objectives

1. To establish as association of persons who share Danish heritage and Danish-American interests.
2. To renew an appreciation of Danish culture, traditions, and fellowship.
3. To encourage preservation of Danish customs and traditions in our region.
4. To support membership of other local and national Scandinavian organizations.

Membership Fees: due in January of each year:

• Individual $10
• Family $20.

A long awaited goal was achieved when, on October 5, 2004, a sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen was unveiled as a part of the Scandinavian Park Celebration. The life size statue was presented to the park by Lynn and Marilyn Odland of Mitchell, SD as a memorial to LynnR17;s mother, Alice Nelson Odland. The sculpture was created by Shari Hamilton of Westhope, ND.

 

The Danish Windmill at the Scandinavian Park.

The Danish Society helps the Danish American Fellowship from Minneapolis in their booth at Hostfest where we sell authentic Danish food each year. We, also, are situated at the information booth of the Danish Museum at each Hostfest. We were very pleased to have the Danish chef, Stig Hansen attend Hostfest in 2007 selling his wonderful new cookbook, Cooking Danish (cookingdanish.com ) In 2006 several member went to the Julefest in Elk horn, Iowa and toured the Danish Museum. We serve aebleskiver, frikadeller and red cabbage quite often at out meetings!