Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago
Feb. 6, 2014
    Two businesses swapped places last week when Veronica Marroquin purchased the former Ardie’s Beauty Barr building at 235 S. Campbell Ave. Veronica’s Hair & Nail Salon opened Feb. 3 in its new home, relocating from 145 E. Denver St. In the meantime, Ron Koch moved his shop, Ron’s, from the front of Ardie’s building to 145 E. Denver St.
    Kenton Bogan, a sixth-grade student at Julesburg Elementary and a member of Raising Ranchers 4-H Club in Phillips County, was honored recently as the first-place winner in the Colorado Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot’s Pen essay contest.
    Holyoke residents woke up to 4.5 inches of fresh snow Friday morning, Jan. 31. Before the snow had a chance to melt, more snow began to fall as a snowstorm moved through town Feb. 4.
    Holyoke once again brought home champion honors from the annual Optimist Club Brain Bowl, defending their title from last year’s third- and fourth-grade competition. Three teams from Holyoke Elementary School traveled to Fort Morgan on Feb. 1 for this academic competition with 20 other teams from northeast Colorado.
    
Ten Years Ago
Feb. 5, 2009
    Due to the addition of nurse practitioners Claudia Powell and Judy Sudmeier, more women are turning to Melissa Memorial Hospital and Family Practice Clinic of Holyoke for obstetric and gynecological care. A total of eight babies were born at MMH in 2008. In January 2009 alone, there have already been four babies born at the hospital. As a result, MMH is taking steps to bolster the services offered in that area.
    2009 marks Heginbotham Library’s 40th birthday, and Friends of the Library celebrated with a “Happy Birthday, Dear Library” theme at their annual salad luncheon Feb. 2 at Phillips County Museum.
    HHS sophomore Mallory Bennett and junior Taylor Haidle were successful in their recent bids for FCCLA district office for 2009-10.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
Feb. 10, 1994
    Jim Steele assumed the role of director/part-time dispatcher at Phillips County Communications Center the first of February. His office will be part of the remodeled communications center located at 100 E. Emerson St.
    The mercury rose to a high of only 4 degrees on Monday, Feb. 7, and dropped to a low of 3 below zero in Holyoke.
    Phillips, Sedgwick and Yuma counties all report that they’re still way short of the required matching funds in order to bring FM public radio to this area.
    
Fifty Years Ago
Feb. 6, 1969
    Donald N. Lininger of Amherst and his 7-year-old son, Michael, escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when the truck which Mr. Lininger was driving blew a tire and went out of control and overturned on State Highway 176, 3 and one-half miles northeast of Holyoke.
    Holyoke High School will present its annual all-school musical, “South Pacific,” April 10-11 in the high school gym.
    A class in Red Cross home nursing is to be started Feb. 12 in the auxiliary room in the basement of Melissa Memorial Hospital. It is based on the premises that the care of the sick at home is a family affair and that basic nursing procedures can readily be adapted to the care of mass casualties in the event of a major disaster.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Feb. 10, 1944
    More gardens, larger and better gardens, and greater production per square foot of ground are the objectives of the 1944 Victory Garden program as outlined at the regional Victory Garden conference in Denver last week.
    Fat salvage is a must wartime job in all homes, and it is our duty to see that every Colorado housewife realizes the supreme importance to the war effort of every tablespoonful of fat which otherwise might be wasted, says Deane Davie of the WPB at Denver.
    With the aid of the federal government, Phillips County High School will again conduct classes for farmers in machinery repair with instruction in electric and acetylene welding.