VIKING FIDDLE FESTIVAL WILL END THIS YEAR

After 20 years of sponsoring the annual Fiddle Festival, the Viking Health Centre Auxiliary has announced the Old Time Fiddle Festival scheduled for Feb. 20 at the Viking Community Hall will be the final such festival sponsored by the local Health Care Auxiliary.

Dorothy White, who is credited with initiating the festival, said she got the idea after she had attended a similar festival in Wainwright years ago.

“It seemed like such a good event. After being to two or three of these events in Wainwright, I asked a number of ladies in attendance if they thought a similar event would be successful in Viking.

They encouraged me and said that if such an event was hosted in Viking, they would be among the attendees.” …

For more see the Feb. 9/16 Weekly Review