New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance

Advance tick­ets only. Call the office at 604 294 2777 for ticket information.

Tick­ets $65 per per­son, or $75 after Decem­ber 14.

Includes hats, noise­mak­ers and cham­pagne to toast the New Year. Smor­gas­bord din­ner catered by Kate Praegel. Ter­rific dance music by DJ Pierre … back from last New Year’s Eve by pop­u­lar demand.

Table seat­ing is pre­arranged so be …

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Finnish Children’s Christmas Party

This Sun­day, Decem­ber 20th at 5pm, the Fin­land House Soci­ety and the Finnish Cana­dian Fish & Game Club will host a Children’s Christ­mas Party. Open to the young and young at heart, admis­sion is free for this event. Come out and enjoy rice pud­ding, cook­ies and cof­fee fol­lowed by a visit from Santa, and per­for­mances by local tal­ent and the …

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Important Changes to Norwegian Passport Procedures Abroad

From Decem­ber 1st, 2009, it will no longer be pos­si­ble to apply for a new Nor­we­gian Pass­port through the Nor­we­gian Hon­orary Con­sulates abroad, such as Van­cou­ver. Only Embassies and cer­tain Gen­eral Con­sulates will be able to receive appli­ca­tion after this date.

From Jan­u­ary 1st, 2010, it will no longer be pos­si­ble to apply for a national per­sonal num­ber and passport …

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Norwegian House President’s Report

Hello every­one!

Here we are feel­ing the win­ter weather, and the Olympics fast approach-ing, unbe­liev­able how fast the year goes by. We had an amaz­ingly suc­cess­ful year. In the sum­mer, the Seniors Salmon Bbq had a great turnout and Euro­pean fes­ti­val attracted a record attendance.

The Mid­sum­mer fes­ti­val fig­ures were up in nearly all areas. The biggest hit this year …

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