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<p align="center"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><font color="#000080"><font size="5">VASA Members JOIN US</font> <br /><font size="5">TheVasaOrder.com</font></font></em></font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="3"><em><font size="4" color="#000080" face="georgia,palatino">This </font></em><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000080"><font face="georgia,palatino"><font size="4"><font color="#000080"><em>is a</em> </font><em><font color="#000080">social network for all VASA Members</font>.</em></font></font></font>&nbsp;You or your group can create a website, for FREE. <em><font face="georgia,palatino">TheVasaOrder.com</font></em></font>&nbsp;is a website where all VASA Members can express their Nordic culture.You can personalize your own profile page or design a complete website, chat, post video, photos, music, events, have a store, join a forum and meet people of Nordic interests from around the world. Come on and join us, only with your participation will this site be able to grow into a site where all VASA Members can experience a global Nordic community.&nbsp;Get connected and make our organization more valubale to its members, by sharing&nbsp;our culture and heritage with members in Sweden the U.S. and Canada. <br /><font color="#000080"><em>In Truth and Unity</em></font></font></font></strong></p><p align="center"><font size="6" color="#000080" face="georgia,palatino"><font size="6"><font size="5"><strong>Create webpages that represent you and your lodge.</strong></font> </font><br /><strong><font size="5">Click on Your District and add content below.</font></strong></font><font face="georgia,palatino"><font size="4"><strong><font color="#000080"><em><br /></em></font></strong></font></font></p>FalsePublicTrue
 
<p align="center"><strong><font size="4" color="#000080" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beta Program hosted by Lodge 761 <font face="georgia,palatino"><em>Norikfolk</em></font>&nbsp;<font color="#000000"> </font></font></strong><strong><font size="4" color="#000000" face="georgia,palatino"><em><u><a href="http://www.nordikfolk.com"><font color="#000000">Nordikfolk</font><font color="#000000">.com</font></a></u></em></font></strong><strong><font size="4" color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br />Questions e-mail <a href="mailto:Mike@Nordikmail.com"><em><font color="#000000" face="georgia,palatino">Mike@Nordikmail.com</font></em></a><br /></font></strong><strong><font size="4" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Join the social network for all Vasa Members <em><font color="#000000" face="georgia,palatino"><u><a href="http://www.thevasaorder.com"><font color="#000000">TheVasa</font><font color="#000000">Order.com</font></a></u></font></em> (<a href="http://www.thevasaorder.com/join_this_social_network"><font color="#ff0000">Click Here</font></a>)</font></strong></p>FalsePublicTrue
 
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