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Waffle Day (RSVP by 3.17)

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Category: Family
Start date: 24 Mar 2018 11:00 AM
End date: 24 Mar 2018 02:00 PM
Street / Location: The Gerber Center, 3435 9 1/2 Ave.,
City / town: Rock Island
Country: Illinois, USA
Organizer: American Scandinavian Association
Name: Loryann Eis
Phone: 309.762.8303
Homepage: http://www.augustana.edu/about-us/events/2018/waffle-day

Waffles and sausage will be served from noon - 1 p.m. in the Gävle Room of the The Gerber Center for Student Life at Augustana College.

Waffle Day is open to the public, reservations are due March 17.

The event runs from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Guests will have an opportunity to make an ornament using wheat weaving, make a heart basket, color Swedith designs and learn to speak some Swedish words.

Cost $10. RSVP to Loryann Eis, 2037 15th St., Moline, Ill.; 309-762-8303. Checks should be payable to ASA.

March 25 is the Feast of Annunciation. In Sweden, the day is called Vårfrudagen or Our Lady’s Day. A mispronunciation of that is våffeldagen or waffle day. Though March 25 is no longer a holiday in Sweden, people continue to eat waffles with strawberry jam and whipped cream as a tradition.

Guests may park in the Faculty/Staff spaces in lot J or I (allowed on weekends and after 5 p.m. weekdays).