From zero to 50
BARBARA K. ROSTAD
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
How could the Seattle area’s Boeing Company be linked to the start of a mountain retreat owned by District 2, Sons of Norway, which recently celebrated 50 years since its groundbreaking in 1972?
The answer lies in three words: hiring Norwegian-born engineers. Somewhere between 100 and 200 of them came to Washington state to work for Boeing during the late 1960s. Many of them joined Sons of Norway, which gave them a chance to interact with fellow Norwegians and Norwegian Americans.
One group of them formed a new Sons of Norway Lodge, Cascade Lodge #87, instituted on Mercer Island outside of S
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