Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago
March 14, 2013
    Julie Worley has taken over as executive director for Phillips County Economic Development. She replaces Jeff Weaver, who occupied the position from September to November.
    High winds accompanied 2.1 inches of snow on March 9, causing low visibility in parts of Holyoke. Rain began Friday night, eventually turning into a snowstorm that lasted until late Saturday evening.
    Retread Threads, a nonprofit secondhand store affiliated with Haxtun United Methodist Church, opened at 122 S. Colorado Ave. in Haxtun on March 7.
    
Ten Years Ago
March 13, 2008
    Laura Bittner, executive assistant at Highline Electric Association, retired Feb. 29 after 40-plus years as a Highline employee.
    John Baumgartner claimed his 200th win as the HHS boys basketball coach at NJC in Sterling on March 1 when the Dragons defeated Sedgwick County 48-46 to claim the district championship.
    The Baptist Church-sponsored AWANA club held its first-ever Grand Prix Derby on March 1.
    Holyoke will soon become home to the first Pamida store in Colorado, according to Bob Pelshaw, manager of Pelstar Development LLC, the company that will be building the store.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
March 18, 1993
    Adeline Coyne has worked her last shift as a dispatcher for the Holyoke Information Center, officially taking retirement status March 15 after 26 1/2 years of dispatching in the county.
    Originally known as the Communicatively/Multi-Handicapped classroom, the Holyoke Learning Center will be closed at the end of this school year.
    The Frenchman and Marks Butte groundwater management districts office has been moved to 103 E. Emerson St. last week. The office was previously located on the top floor of the Courthouse Annex.
    Gearing up to start practicing for the 1993 rodeo season, the HHS Rodeo Club put on a jackpot fundraiser in Sterling on Feb. 14.
    
Fifty Years Ago
March 14, 1968
    Holyoke’s young BB-gunners, who are in a gun safety class sponsored by the Jaycees, will be going to Pueblo for the state shoot-off on April 27.
    There will be three candidates for mayor and nine candidates for the six town trustee seats in Holyoke’s biennial town election on April 2.
    A course in driver improvement will begin March 26 in the courthouse community room and will continue for four consecutive weeks.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
March 18, 1943
    Cooperating in the national “Buy a Jeep” campaign, the Holyoke FFA chapter, the home economics department and the high school band will give a program at the high school auditorium March 25. The program will include two one-act plays and special music. Admission price will be one or more 10-cent war stamps for grade school pupils and one or more 25-cent war stamps for other individuals. A war bond will also admit anyone to the program.
    The cooperation of all citizens is asked in the preservation of lawns and yards, as well as gardens, when the growing season starts. Everyone is asked not to cut corners and walk over lawns but instead to use the sidewalks. Persons owning livestock and poultry in town are also requested to keep them penned up so they will not run at large and invade gardens and yards.
    The Holyoke Implement Company, operated by Leonard and Joe Jecminek, this week purchased the store building occupied until two weeks ago by Max Morgan for his grocery store and will move their machinery and repairs to the new location about the first of April.