Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago — Oct. 13, 2016

The Pavilion/Education Center committee has a full evening of entertainment planned for Dec. 10 to raise funds for the new pavilion at the Phillips County Fairgrounds. The gala will include a meal, a dance, viewing of the finals of the National Finals Rodeo, a mechanical bull setup for riding attempts, a raffle and a live auction.

After some debate at the Oct. 4 meeting, Holyoke City Council voted in favor of the Phillips County 911 Authority Board’s request for the proposed payment plan of a console upgrade for the Phillips County Communications Center.

With the guidance of Phillips County Economic Development director Julia Biesemeier and an advisory committee of business representatives, child care providers and interested community members, Holyoke’s child care shortage could be a thing of the past. The group has been meeting to discuss the feasibility and logistics of having a child care center in Holyoke.

Ten Years Ago — Oct. 13, 2011

Scheunemanns Department Store, Holyoke’s oldest family-owned business, is celebrating its 112th anniversary this month.

Holyoke City Council members voted during their Oct. 4 meeting to extend overtime pay for Holyoke Police Department officers. The city is down to two full-time officers, and the two part-time officers will be very limited during the month of October. All overtime pay will cease and revert back to existing policy when the department returns to three full-time officers.

Twenty-Five Years Ago — Oct. 17, 1996

Emphasizing the crowded conditions at the elementary school, the steering committee for the Re-1J school bond election conducted a public informational meeting Monday evening. The proposal for gaining space is to move the seventh and eighth grades out of the current building and to build a new junior high wing on the northwest corner of the existing high school.

A pianist/lecturer who uses music to help explain concepts in other subject areas will complete an artist in residence Oct. 21-Nov. 1 in Holyoke School District Re-1J. Claud Brown of Boulder is being brought to Holyoke through a grant by the Holyoke Community Arts Council as an artist in residence.

Golden Plains Recreation Center has received a $39,900 grant from the state of Colorado for use in youth activities. The one-year grant, given by the Youth Crime Prevention and Intervention Board, will allow GPRC to expand some of its youth programs.

Fifty Years Ago — Oct. 14, 1971

Phillips County commissioners must create a planning commission in accordance with CRS 106-2-2, which states “that no later than July 1, 1972, said planning commission will develop and the county commissioners adopt and enforce subdivision regulations for all land within the unincorporated area of their respective counties.”

Weather during the past two weeks in Phillips County has been generally ideal for crop development. Production of the 1971 sugar beet crop is estimated at 2,415,000 tons. The 1971 corn grain crop is now forecast at 37,620,000 bushels. According to reports, the dry bean harvest in the county is considered good to excellent.

Seventy-Five Years Ago — Oct. 17, 1946

The resuscitator which was demonstrated at the Lions Club luncheon two weeks ago has been ordered and is expected to arrive within the next two or three weeks. The machine is a community affair and will be made available for use to anyone anywhere in the community. It can be used on one or two persons who are victims of drowning, electric shock, heart attacks, asthmatic sufferers, and many other types of accidents or diseases of the respiratory system.

Seven new clarinets and cornets were purchased by parents of grade school children Monday night. Students now starting on the new instruments are Gloria Einspahr, Lawana Boller, Marilyn Brase, Robert Schmidt, Shirley Hayes, Elton Olofson and Garry Saylor.