Helga, Hulda and Lena are at it again. They are rounding up their lefse sticks and grills. They have their husbands lined up to help peel 100 pounds of potatoes this evening. Saturday, they will roll the lefse and watch it brown on the grills in Lena's kitchen on Chestnut Street.
Actually, Lena is Jeannine Lindquist. Helga is Jan Solseng and Hulda is Jan Noblin. This is the 30th year the trio has made lefse together for their families to enjoy during the holidays. They make plenty.
Their husbands are Mark Solseng, Bobby Noblin and Lee Lindquist. They aren't all Norwegians, but if you live in Grand Forks and it is November, you get the feeling you should be making lefse. It's the thing to do.
There's a lefse-making session set for today at St. Paul's Episcopal Church as a benefit for Northlands Rescue Mission. Orders were taken earlier, but anyone with a hankering for a single piece of lefse can buy it at the church today.
You can be sure the lutefisk and lefse people at the Sons of Norway lodge will be at it this season. They are, in fact, holding a luncheon and bake sale Saturday. Some hunt deer. Other people make lefse.
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Helga, Hulda and Lena learned about lefse in the 1970s at Augustana Lutheran Church. After helping out there, they decided to make some for their own families. So this week, they have loaded up on potatoes, Dakota Maid bread flour, and lots of butter and real cream. They don't know the meaning of the word "cholesterol" when it's lefse season.
There's more than lefse this weekend in Grand Forks. . . . The Community Theatre is off and running with its version of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris". . . And the biennial Holiday House Tour is set for Saturday and Sunday with five homes all decked out for visitors. . . Moscow Ballet's "Great Russian Nutcracker" is coming to the Chester Fritz on Sunday evening. . . And the Autumn Art Auction will be held Saturday evening at North Dakota Museum of Art. . . The Ma'a lot Quintet, a German ensemble, will perform a Sunday serenade at the Museum of Art. . . . Pete Moss will provide music for the viewing of Empty Bowls on Sunday evening at St. Michael's Church. . . It's the third annual benefit for St. Vincent de Paul. . . And Monday is a holiday since Veterans Day falls this year on Sunday. . .
Thoughts while making applesauce: Jane Holm takes the cake for making the all time greatest Rice Krispies bars. . . The National Anthem sounds just right when it is sung before UND Fighting Sioux sporting events in straightforward fashion. The Varsity Bards and Fallcreek do it so well. . . UND Sioux fans are sort of a family and saddened by the death of Bing Larson and Dr. Don Meredith recently. . . The calcium absorption and bone mass study beginning in January sounds like a good way to help with research while eating meals from the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center for 16 weeks. . . It's been years since anyone proposed dropping North from Dakota and making this state be Dakota.
A timely vanity plate seen recently on the streets of Grand Forks said: I SNOW. Others of interest: DRV RITE, 4U JOSH and WHY NOT. Then there was MAXIMUS and CANARY. RCKN RLL was seen out at UND. Some you can figure, such as I LUV DEW. Others that leave a person puzzling: BOOCUP, BA KNEE and MY JUJU.
Cheerful person of the week: David Pace.
Runner-up: SuAnne Frasier.
Reach Hagerty at mhagerty@gfherald.com .
