Viking Weekly Review

With hunting season right around the corner, hunters heading out this year may notice a fewer number of wildlife  species through their gun sights.

When a tornado struck and destroyed a newly completed dairy production, cooperation from neighbouring colonies brought the ultra-modern operation back from disaster within weeks.

Although Vikings in the Streets is an early summer affair, the event came back into the limelight this weekend as live auction winners Roy Ellingson and Joan Van Buul collected their prize of a plane ride for four into Edmonton.

If Viking Town Councillor Peter McArthur is correct, Viking may just find itself sitting in the right place at the right time.

Viking Auction Mart owner Cliff Grinde says that the recent E.coli outbreak at the Brooks, Alberta XL Foods processing plant could be a political ploy to edge government officials to offer up grant money for the industry leader.

    Over the weekend more cases of E.coli illnesses related to contaminated beef at a meat processing plant in southeast Alberta have been reported across Canada. All those affected by the bacteria have fully recovered or are recovering.