The VASA Order of America was originally a Swedish American organization, and now welcomes members from all Scandinavian and Nordic countries and ancestry, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. You can find more information, and locate the lodge closest to you here at the VASA website: http://www.vasaorder.com/
There are over 200 Lodges in 19 different districts,
with nearly 15,000 members in Sweden, the U.S. and Canada.
The District in Northern California and Nevada is
GOLDEN GATE NO. 12, which has 17 lodges.
Ours is the Gold Nugget Lodge #662 in Paradise, CA, which was founded in 1961.
We meet on the 4th Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m., (With lunch at noon, prior to our meeting.) At the Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd., Paradise, CA, 95969 -- find map here:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/877+Nunneley+Rd.+Paradise+CA+95969+United+States
Each January we welcome new members into the lodge and install the officers for the coming year.
At our May meeting we go out to eat at a restaurant in memory of Mothers Day. We do not have a regular meeting during the summer, but we hold a picnic at a members home. At our October meeting we commemorate Lief Eriksson day. In November we celebrate the anniversary of the founding of our lodge by Arvid Bryggman in 1961 with lunch at a restaurant. We hold a Santa Lucia Festival each December, where we have a Split Pea Soup Supper, and Swedish cookies and pastries and coffee, we also have entertainment and singing. We welcome anyone of Scandinavian heritage or anyone who is interested in Scandinavian and Nordic countries and culture.
For more information please~ email Laurel
at veraloe@gotsky.com
The VASA Order of America was originally a Swedish American organization, and now welcomes members from all Scandinavian and Nordic countries and ancestry, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. You can find more information, and locate the lodge closest to you here at the VASA website: http://www.vasaorder.com/
There are over 200 Lodges in 19 different districts,
with nearly 15,000 members in Sweden, the U.S. and Canada.
The District in Northern California and Nevada is
GOLDEN GATE NO. 12, which has 17 lodges.
Ours is the Gold Nugget Lodge #662 in Paradise, CA, which was founded in 1961.
We meet on the 4th Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m., (With lunch at noon, prior to our meeting.) At the Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd., Paradise, CA, 95969 -- find map here:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/877+Nunneley+Rd.+Paradise+CA+95969+United+States
Each January we welcome new members into the lodge and install the officers for the coming year.
At our May meeting we go out to eat at a restaurant in memory of Mothers Day. We do not have a regular meeting during the summer, but we hold a picnic at a members home. At our October meeting we commemorate Lief Eriksson day. In November we celebrate the anniversary of the founding of our lodge by Arvid Bryggman in 1961 with lunch at a restaurant. We hold a Santa Lucia Festival each December, where we have a Split Pea Soup Supper, and Swedish cookies and pastries and coffee, we also have entertainment and singing. We welcome anyone of Scandinavian heritage or anyone who is interested in Scandinavian and Nordic countries and culture.
For more information please~ email Laurel
at veraloe@gotsky.com