Norway's King Honors Huntington Woods Resident
Dennis Flessland, a Sons of Norway member and honorary consul to Michigan, selected to receive The King’s Knight First Class of the Order of Merit.
The Honorable Dennis Flessland of Huntington Woods, Norway’s honorary consul to Michigan, was selected to receive an extraordinary honor from His Majesty King Harald of Norway in a ceremony Tuesday. Flessland, an attorney and member of Farmington Hills-based Nordkap Lodge of the Sons of Norway, was awarded The King’s Knight First Class of the Order of Merit for “meritorious services for Norwegian interests and Norwegian citizens.” The Order with its unique medal was to be presented by Sissel Breie, Norway’s Consul General in New York, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sponsored by the office of the Consul General in New York and Nordkap Lodge, the ceremony was to include a reception in the museum’s historic Kresge Court. The Royal …
