Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago

Feb. 2, 2017

Over 215 people attended the Friends of National Rifle Association banquet at the Phillips County Event Center on Jan. 26, the first of what Friends of NRA hopes to be an annual fundraiser for the future of shooting sports.

Ophthalmologist Dr. Michael Solomon will soon be contracted with Melissa Memorial Hospital. The addition of Solomon’s services to those of MMH optometrist Dr. Tim Meyer will “complete the loop,” enabling in-house cataract surgeries.

Relay For Life returns under a new name this year: Relay For Life of Northeast Colorado. Organizers for Logan and Phillips counties teamed up to form a new group that encompasses both counties to ensure that the annual American Cancer Society fundraiser would continue to have a presence in the region.

Ten Years Ago

Feb. 2, 2012

Melissa Memorial Hospital will be working with Centennial Mental Health Center, following action by the East Phillips County Hospital District board on Jan. 24. Board members approved a contract that will allow for CMHC employees and volunteers to visit MMH and care for mental health patients within the facility.

The Holyoke Girl Scout multilevel troops are 28 girls strong, with girls from kindergarten through high school. This year they join 3.2 million other Girl Scouts and adult volunteers across America to celebrate the “Year of the Girl” in honor of Girl Scouts’ 100th anniversary.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Feb. 6, 1997

After a week’s worth of testing at the new incinerator installed at the Phillips County Landfill, Phillips County commissioners will be anxiously waiting for test results, which aren’t expected for 30-45 days. Commissioners reported at their Jan. 31 meeting that the county has 180 days from the time the incinerator was “lit” to get it “fine tuned” as required by the state health department.

Holyoke Chamber of Commerce members got some food for thought and some encouragement from an expert in the area of downtown revitalization — Colorado Community Revitalization Association executive director Jo-an Barnett — at the chamber’s Jan. 28 meeting.

Fifty Years Ago

Feb. 3, 1972

A meeting concerned with establishing a county dump will be held Feb. 8 in the Phillips County Court House community room.

Paoli has a new post office in a new location. Since Mrs. Leland Miller has been appointed postmistress, she has had a new building annex built onto their home which serves as the post office.

Approximately 125 members and their families and guests attended a potluck dinner and mortgage burning service at Zion Lutheran Church in Holyoke last Sunday evening. The occasion was the burning of the mortgage that had been acquired for the construction of the new 10-room Sunday school addition to the church.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Feb. 6, 1947

C.R. Smythe, manager of the J.C. Penney store here, was named scoutmaster of the newly reorganized Boy Scout troop at a meeting held Feb. 3.

Estimates of the number of World War II dead who will be returned to the United States under the Quartermaster Corps’ repatriation program were given today. The War Department figures that 80% of the recovered bodies will be returned to this country or to the homeland of the deceased and that 20% will be interred permanently in military cemeteries overseas. Only the remains of those whose return is requested by the next of kin will be brought back to the United States for final burial.