Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Feb. 2, 2012
    East Phillips County Hospital District board members approved a contract at their Jan. 24 meeting that will allow for Centennial Mental Health Center employees and volunteers to visit MMH and care for mental health patients within the facility.
    The 28 members of Holyoke Girl Scout multi-level troops are joining 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.
    After the stegomastodon excavation in a gravel pit southeast of Holyoke last summer, Enterprise staff members were excited to see a small article in a 1925 Phillips County Herald about a massive tusk found in a gravel pit east of Eckley in Yuma County.
    
Ten Years Ago
Feb. 1, 2007
    Dale Anderson is retiring after nearly 21 years of service to the National Weather Service Co-op Observing Program. Dan Kafka officially took over the volunteer NWS weather observer position for the Holyoke area Jan. 23.
    Alan and Emma Sprague are planning to open A&E Clothing Feb. 5 at the old Roskop Accounting building at 124 S. Interocean Ave.
    Grainland Cooperative is now official. The new Grainland merges Holyoke Cooperative Association, Amherst Cooperative Elevator Inc. and Grainland (Haxtun-Fleming) Cooperative as of Feb. 1.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Feb. 6, 1992
    Two people were arrested Jan. 31 on suspicion of marijuana cultivation after police found 10 5-gallon buckets with one marijuana plant in each.
    A long-awaited goal for the Holyoke Future Homemakers of America chapter will become a reality Feb. 8 when the group opens its community recycling center in the center section of the old Conoco Bulk Plant.
    The Holyoke Revitalization Organization will be adding “Inc.” to its name in order to make greater strides for community betterment. The group, initiated in November 1990 as part of the Colorado Rural Revitalization Project, took the action to incorporate at its regular meeting Jan. 20.
    
Fifty Years Ago
Feb. 2, 1967
    Completion of Holyoke’s new indoor swimming pool, postponed several times because of material shortages, now appears to be assured sometime this month. Open house has been scheduled for Feb. 26.
    Again this year, Holyoke Bowling Lanes will conduct a “Bowl Down Cancer” program to support the fund campaign being conducted this month by the local chapter of the American Cancer Society.
    The advisory board of the High Plains Public Library system recently held its first meeting at the Weld County library in Greeley, which will be the system’s administrative headquarters. Representing Phillips County at the meeting was Mrs. Earlean F. Jung, who had been appointed by the Phillips County commissioners as this county’s member of the advisory board.
    Many farm families are expected to be in Holyoke Feb. 10 to attend the second annual Northeast Colorado Agricultural Institute. This popular event is sponsored by the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Feb. 5, 1942
    At the regular meeting of the members of the board of the Town of Holyoke Monday evening, it was voted to enforce the law pertaining to the operation of punch boards in the town. The board voted on the matter after complaints had been filed in recent weeks, with the result that the punch board practices be discontinued. Following the meeting, the town marshals were instructed to enforce the ruling and see that all boards were removed from Holyoke business places.
    Gelort C. Strehlow, principal and upper grades instructor in the Paoli school, District No. 66, tendered his resignation Wednesday to the board of education. He has accepted a position as music instructor in the high school at Culbertson, Nebraska. Miss Alice Taylor has been elected as principal and instructor for the remainder of the school term.
    A third schedule of Burlington Trailways buses operating through Holyoke between Denver and Chicago, Illinois, became effective Sunday, Feb. 1.