Thursday July 23

Golf Tournament
Long Beach Peninsula Golf
Shot Gun Start at Noon
4 person scramble
Sign up with Dave at the Naselle Hardware Store
(360) 484-3277
Cost: Green fees + donation

Friday July 24

The Courtyard
12pm Welcome – Marilyn Johnson & Serena Travis
National Anthem
Maypole Dancers

Library – Media Hub
10am Ida Elina: Under the Northern Skies (Film) + Zoom Q&A with Ida Elina
11am-2:30pm Interviews from the past
2:30pm Helsinki International Film Fest: Side by Side Short Program
3:30pm-4:30pm Interviews from the past

The Commons
2pm: Revontuli – Finnish American Music; Valerie Blessley & Jennifer Pratt-Walter

Cultural Programming – Storytellers

Room 201
11am Valerie Blessley: Kantele Workshop

Room 203
2pm Allan Wirkkala: Oscar A. Wirkkala Inventions and Memories
3pm Gary Anderson: Recording your Memoir

Grabenhorst-Hall Fieldhouse
1pm Jay Smith III (FFN Lecturer of the year 2026): John Morton: America’s Finnish Founding Father

Football Field
3:30 Molkky: Game for all ages

The Commons
MC Mike Swanson & Greg Nelson

4:15-5pm Charlotte Loukola
5:15-6pm Brownsmead Flats
6:15-7pm Skamokawa Swamp Opera
7:15-8pm Eeppi Ursin
8:15-9pm Carl Wirkkala & The Whistle Punks

Room 305
Quilts of Valor Displayed Friday Only

Saturday July 25

Room 302
7am to 10am Pannukakku Breakfast by Epsilon  Sigma Alpha-Alpha Theta
2pm – Pannukakku Food Demonstration by Eva Malerich

Naselle Assembly of God Church Parking Lot
7am – Paavo Nurmi Same Day Registration
8am – PAAVO NURMI 5K/3.1 MILE RUN/WALK

Field/Stadium
Opening Ceremony 10am-11:15am
Welcome by Marilyn Johnson & Serena Travis
Finnish National Anthem: Eeppi Ursin
American National Anthem: Ahlena Green
Honorary Consul of Finland Kristiina Hiukka
Maypole Dancers
Quilts of Valor presentation

The Commons
12-3pm Alaskan Salmon Dinner Grays River Grange

Courtyard
12:30pm Maypole Dancers
Paavo Nurmi winners announced after Maypole
1:45pm Nordic Dancer’s

Football Field
12pm Saturday Competitive Games
Nokia Toss
Wife Carry
Boot Toss
2:00 pm Disc Golf Presentation and Play
3pm Molkky: Game for all ages

Library – Media Hub
12pm-3pm Interviews from the Past
3pm: Helsinki International Film Fest: Side by Side Short Program

Cultural Programming – Storytellers

Grabenhorst-Hall Fieldhouse
1pm Karl Marlantes: Q & A session
2pm Kristiina Hiukka: Reasons Why Finland tops the Happiness Rankings year after year
3pm Bryan Penttila: Naselle Stories
4pm Gary Anderson: Poetry & Stories
5pm Russ Collier: Cowboy Poetry

Room 201
3pm Valerie Blessley: Kantele Workshop

Room 203
2pm Allan Wirkkala: Knappton & Megler History
4pm Glen Johnson: Reflections on the Upper Naselle

The Commons
MC Mike Swanson & Greg Nelson
4:15 – 5pm Carl Wirkkala & the Whistlepunks
5:15 – 6pm Charlotte Loukola & Eeppi Ursin
6:15 – 7pm Brownsmead Flats
7:15-8pm Skamokawa Swamp Opera
8:00 -8:30pm Raffle winners announced
8:30-11pm Family Dance with The Smilin’ Scandinavians