Vegas Viking Lodge To Host 25th Annual Lutefisk Dinner
Tickets are now on sale for the 25th annual lutefisk dinner hosted by the Vegas Viking Lodge of the Sons of Norway.
The dinner will be held Saturday, January 27, 2024, with seatings at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Boulder City Elks Lodge, located at 1217 Boulder City Parkway.
On the menu: Lutefisk with melted butter or white sauce, roasted pork, boiled potatoes, peas and carrots, lefse as well as Norwegian cookies. Norway’s aquavit, called the “water of life,” will be available at an open bar. Packages of lefse and cookies also will be sold to take home.
“The dinner is a great social event,” said Karen Holien Buehrer, president of the Vegas Vikings Lodge. “Lutefisk, codfish soaked in and then drained of lye, has a reputation all its own in the Norwegian community. Some of us have even grown to love it,” Holien laughed.
For the first time, anyone wishing to purchase tickets can do so online by visiting the Lodge’s website, www.vegasvikings.org. Price is $30 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. This popular event is usually a sellout, and tickets must be purchased in advance, not at the door.
Proceeds will benefit the Sons of Norway Vegas Viking Lodge, a nonprofit organization formed in 1992 to promote the Norwegian heritage through a variety of special events featuring traditional and contemporary programs. The lodge also operates an annual scholarship program open to high school graduates with a Norwegian ancestry.
The Vegas Viking Lodge of the Sons of Norway was organized in May 1992 and has been involved in a wide variety of special events featuring traditional and contemporary programs having a Norwegian-American flavor ever since. This national non-profit organization and cultural society is dedicated to preserving Norwegian and Scandinavian heritage in North American and strengthening ties between North American and modern Norway. In addition to its popular annual lutefisk dinner, holiday bazaar, Lodge members have made appearances with its “dragon boat” at local parades festivals, and school functions. The group meets monthly and has provided more that $40,000 in scholarships to local Norwegian-American youth.
To learn more about the Lodge and its activities, visit the Website Vegasvikings.org, Instagram @VegasVikingGang or Facebook “Vegas Viking Lodge of Sons of Norway.”