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After 37 years employed at Viking School as secretary, Ev McLaren has retired from her position, effective at the end of the school year and staff and students say that the school will not be the same without her presence.
Irene Fluevog was born two months after the sinking of the Titanic. When the fact is mentioned to her, she says she thinks she “saw a movie about that once.”
Irene, a Viking-born former Irma district school teacher, turned 105 on June 25.
The 38th annual Cloverlodge Stampede took place in Viking at the rodeo grounds on June 24 and 25.
The first day of the stampede started off with some rain, but by Sunday a beautiful, cloudless day welcomed visitors.
Former Daysland resident Shari Narine visited the Viking Municipal Library on June 22, where she hosted a reading from her first novel, published May 1.
On June 19, police received a complaint of a suspicious person standing on Highway 36 north of Viking. Police made a patrol but the person in question was no longer in the area.
