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100-year-old Grand Forks resident still doing taxes for clients

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Else Rike of Grand Forks turns 100 this weekend. She came to North Dakota from Norway in 1935. Rike raised a family, worked in the county auditor's office, picked up a painting hobby. Since 1962, she has been doing people's taxes in North Dakota.

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100-year-old Grand Forks resident still doing taxes for clients

GRAND FORKS There's H and R Block, Turbo Tax, and there's 100-year-old Else Rike."We all went over in '71," Rike said while thumbing through old photos of a trip to Norway.Rike still has the stories fresh in her mind of growing up in Norway in the 1920s and 30s. She said it was a lot of work summering the cattle in the mountains of Norway."We had 12 cows we had to milk by hand," Rike said, adding that she also churned butter there.When she came…

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