Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
    Feb. 16, 2012
    Phillips County and Holyoke School District Re-1J are partnering for a $350,000 grant application to Great Outdoors Colorado for a new all-weather track.
    Four Colorado State University civil engineering students spent a couple hours in Holyoke Sunday, Feb. 12, studying the foundation issues at the mini park located at the intersection of Denver Street and Interocean Avenue. They took notes and photographs, which they will use to build an assessment to present to the city council.
    
    Ten Years Ago
    Feb. 15, 2007
    Final steps are being taken to officially make Las Mangas, a village in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Holyoke’s sister city, according to council member José León at the Feb. 6 city council meeting.
    Three Holyoke High School swimmers will travel to the 4A State Swimming competition with the Sterling High School team Feb. 15-16. HHS junior Shannon Bornhoft has qualified on three of the Sterling relay teams: 400 free relay, 200 free relay and 200 medley relay. Junior Brittany Young and sophomore LeAnne McWilliams will travel with the team as relay alternates.
    Holyoke High School Service Learning Club held a Local Close Up Feb. 9 in the HHS auditorium. Guest speakers included former state treasurer and state senator Mark Hillman, Denver Post editor and columnist Bob Ewegen, and law enforcement officers Doug Bergstrom and Tanya Mayhew.
    
    Twenty-Five Years Ago
    Feb. 20, 1992
    Students in grades K-2 celebrated their 100th day of school Feb. 11 with 100 balloons and a special cake with 100 candles. During the year, students in each grade kept track of the number of days that school had been in session. The youngsters also made a collection of 100 things to bring to school on the 100th day.
    The seventh- and eighth-graders at Holyoke Junior High are involved in an interdisciplinary unit on the Anasazi Indian. T.J. Namingha, a storyteller and expert Rachina doll maker from New Mexico, presented programs for the students Feb. 13-14.
  

 Fifty Years Ago
    Feb. 16, 1967
    Northeast Colorado’s brief romance with resort weather came to an abrupt halt Tuesday night with the arrival of much colder temperatures, strong wind and light snow. After a spring-like 75-degree reading Tuesday afternoon — believed to be a record for that date — the mercury dived to 5 degrees Tuesday night.
    The kickoff style show for National Beauty Salon Week was a big success, with about 150 present. This was the first ever to take place in Holyoke for this occasion. The event was held Sunday afternoon in the social hall of the Holyoke Methodist Church. Three local beauty shops — Elaine’s Beauty Salon, Helen’s Beauty Shop and Ardie’s Beauty Barr — sponsored and presented the style show.
    Two brothers, Bob and Bruce Schneider, have assumed operation of the Enco (Humble) service station in Holyoke, taking over the business from John Hendrix. The business is now known as Schneider Bros. Enco and Repair.
    The famous Harlem Clowns basketball team will meet a Holyoke faculty team in the HHS gym Feb. 25. The game will be sponsored by the Holyoke High School “H” Club. The “merry magicians of the hardwood” are billed as a bunch of fun-loving super-athletes who play for laughs.
    
    Seventy-Five Years Ago
    Feb. 19, 1942
    Second cold wave of the winter season struck Tuesday night in the entire section of northeastern Colorado. The official reading at the weather observation station in Holyoke yesterday morning was 13 degrees below zero.
    Farrington R. Carpenter, state revenue director, this week urged all persons in Colorado to check their out-of-state purchases during the past year to determine if they have paid a “use tax” on those purchases. The state law levying a 2 percent tax on all purchases made outside the state for use, storage or consumption is being enforced rigorously. The use tax is necessary for the protection of Colorado merchants as it tends to keep Colorado money in Colorado by thwarting the attempt to evade the sales tax through the purchasing in other states.