Events
Contents:
- Late Laskiainen - Pea Soup Party - Lake Crabtree Park,
Cary - Saturday, April 9, 2011, at noon - 3pm
- Midsummer Party - Saturday, June 25th, 2011, 5pm until - Chapel Hill
- Piirakka Party – Saturday, September 24, 2011 – 5pm until -Wake Forest
- Raleigh
International Festival – September 30- October 2, 2011 at the Raleigh
Convention Center
- Independence Day Party–Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 2pm - 6pm, Quail Hollow's Club House, Raleigh
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Late Laskiainen - Pea
Soup Party - Lake Crabtree, Cary - on Saturday, April 9, 2011, from noon - 3pm
Laskianen is the Finnish word for Shrove Tuesday, which
is also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
We will meet at the Dogwood Shelter in the
Lake Crabtree Park to
enjoy hot pea soup, special Finnish home-made deserts, beautiful spring
weather, and each other’s company.
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Coordinator: Tiina Folley. Please let Tiina
know if you can help
and what you can bring from the following list of desserts: home-made Finnish pancakes (lättyjä/lettuja), Fat Tuesday
buns (Laskiais pullat), Runeberg's cupcakes (Runebergin tortut), pulla, coffee
cake
(kuiva kakku) or home-made cookies. Her e-mail is tiina.folley@gmail.com.
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TFA provides in the cover charge (in addition to
the shelter): peasoup, bread, butter, coffee, and soft drinks.
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An Evite invitation will be sent to the members.
Directions To Lake Crabtree
Take Exit 285 from
I-40 (Aviation Parkway) and follow
signs toward Morrisville. The entrance to the park is well marked. After you enter the park, follow the narrow
road until you see signs toward the shelters. Proceed
until you see blue and white balloons and
the sign to the Dogwood Shelter.
Marimekko’s Tasaraita shirt
Last year at the Laskiainen Party, we took this
great picture:
:
Let us take another, bigger one this year. So, I ask everybody who has a Marimekko’s Tasaraita shirt to wear it.
If you do not have a Tasaraita, please,
wear some other Finnish shirt if you have, like this shirt Jukka wore last year: “A Finn’s Feelings.”
Raleigh International Festival September 30 - October 2, 2011 at
the Raleigh Convention Center
The Raleigh International Festival
Merja Wolfe, Hanna Gnann, Timo Palo, Riitta Virtaranta, Marika Suominen Yeh,
Kari Laitinen and Rosalind Laitinen
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Midsummer Party - on Saturday, June 25th, 2011, 5 pm until –
- Location: TBA
- Coordinator: TBA
- The dishes are going to be traditional cold Finnish Juhannus dishes: herring, salmon, potato salad, strawberry cake, etc. Please bring a dish to share.
- An Evite invitation will be sent to the members.
Piirakka Party - Saturday, September 24, 2011, 5pm
Independence Day – Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 2pm - 6pm
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Caspian International Food Mart
2909 Brentwood Road
Raleigh, NC 27604
You can find the following "Finnish" items at this shop:
- Yellow Whole Peas (not the split ones)
- Leksands Swedish Rye Crispbread
- Valio Viola Cheese Spread
- Valio Lappi Cheese
- Skansen Herring
- Goteborg Ballerina Cookies
- Russian Rye Bread
- Fazer’s Finn Crisp
YUMMMMM!!
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