Hello Everyone, just a reminder the monthly meeting for February will be on Tuesday February 7th, thank you

A few members are planning an ice fishing trip to Beaverdam Lake near Clinton on the weekend of March 3rd/4th.

Rob Clement will be looking in to hotels/motels in the area so that if people come from out of town, then we’ll have a place to stay. I would like to get an idea of who wants to go so we can possibly book some rooms.

If anyone is interested they can either call Rob Celement: 604-671-7315 or e-mail him: jr_clement@hotmail.com

or they can call Markus Haukka at 604-589-8057

All are invited and welcome!

The FCFGCLUB would like to wish all its members and family/friends a healthy and prosperous 2012!

All the best for the new year in your endevours!

The next club meeting will be on tuesday January 3rd!

Everyone Welcome to

Finnish Canadian
Fish & Game Club
Christmas Party !

Sunday , December
18th , 5p.m.
Rice pudding, coffee, goodies,
Raffle, Santa !

Join us for
Christmas Carols !
For info Sinikka 604 462-7036 or
Annele 604 575-9119

Scandinavian Community Centre
6540 Thomas Street,
Burnaby, B.C.
V5B 4P9

Tel. 604-294-2777 Fax 604-294-5932
E-mail: info@scandinaviancentre.org
www.scandinaviancentre.org
www.scandinavianmidsummerfestival.org

Office Hours: Weekdays 12-6, Saturdays 10-2,
Sundays and Holidays closed

Directions: Driving West on Highway 1:
Use Exit #33 Kensington Avenue
Driving East on Highway 1:
Use Exit #32 Sprott Street
A bus stop is one block away on Sprott Street

Annual Sturgeon fishing along the fraser river with BC SportFishing guides, a good time as always, the biggest sturgeon of the day was a whopping 9 foot 2, and the most fish caught by a single boat was 48!

Club annual hunt

Oct. 1st weekend came and went. For the annual club deer hunt we had a show of nine
hunters at the Paska Lake cabin.
As for all of us hunters the outdoors with fresh air and good friends make a good hunting
trip and if you bring something home besides dirty clothes it becomes a great trip.
This time we had Markus Rauhala and Jari Vainionpää collect a nice two point buck each
where the rest of us saw some game but nothing that was legal to hunt.
Thank you for everyone for being a part of our club activity.

Juha Askola

Good afternoon everyone, The Scandinavian Cultural Society will be putting on an event called “Nordic Spirit 2012: The Lives They Left Behind”. Its happening on March 31st & April 1st 2012

As a part of this event the Cultural Society has asked people within the Scandinavian community to provide photos, artifacts and stories illustrating life in the Nordic countries (1850-1950) for display during the event, if anyone has anything they would like to contribute it would be much appreciated by the society

if you have anything you would like to contribute please contact either

Carilyn Thaubeger at 778-329-6964
Email – cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca

or

Judith Anderson
Email – judithanderson@shaw.ca

Thank you

Metsästyksen puitteista

Elämä on niin arvaamatonta. Eipä tunnu olevan kauaa kun Hynnisen Raija opetti mulle karjalan piirakan valmistuksen jaloa taitoa. Nyt hän on pois.
Kesän alussa Rasilaisen Heikin kanssa hoidettiin kämpän katto asiaa ja juteltiin klubin vuotuisesta peura metsästyksestä. Nyt hänkin on pois.
Rauha heidän sieluilleen.
Heikkiä tässä ajatellessani tuli mieleen että ’ihmisen sanotaan siirtyvän paremmille metsästys maille’. Siitä ajatukseni jatkui että kyllä pitää olla tosi mahtavat paikat jos se näitä meidän vuoria parempi paikka on. Vielä jatkoin maallisen aivoittelua että mitenkähän se kivääri asia siellä…

No niin, takaisin maan päälle. Nyt on taas metsästys aika lähellä sekä klubin vuotuinen peuran metsästys Paska Laken majan maastossa. Kämppä on auki kaikille kiinnostuneille Syyskuun 30 – Lokakuu 4 ja majoittumisesi on tältä ajalta ilmainen. Kun ajeletten kämpälle perjantaina ja peura auttamatta ajautuu ihan eteen niin muistakaa laskea sarvien luku, kaikki pukit on auki vasta lauantaina.

Perjantai iltana saunotaan ja lauantai aamuna käydään kaato hommiin.

Lisää infoa saat multa jaskola@telus.net

Juha Askola

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About hunting

Life is a one giant surprise. It wasn’t long ago when Raija Hynninen was teaching me the noble art of making ‘karjalan piirakka’. Now she is gone.
Beginning of the summer Heikki Rasilainen and I were discussing the cabin sauna roof repair and the yearly club deer hunt. Now also he is gone. May they rest in peace.

Thinking about Heikki I couldn’t help but think about saying that “one goes to better hunting grounds” when a person passes away.
Then I thought that it sure must be an awesome place to beat our mountains for scenery and game. From there my mortal thoughts started wondering about the rifle situation over there…

Ok, back to earthly hunting. The season is almost upon us and so is the yearly club hunt in the vicinity of our beautiful cabin at Paska Lake. The cabin will be reserved for the club hunt from Sept.30 – Oct.4 and there will be no usage fee for your stay during that period. When driving to the cabin on Friday afternoon you’ll most likely see a deer but make sure of the antler count before pulling the trigger. All bucks will open Saturday.

For more info jaskola@telus.net

Juha Askola