Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
    May 3, 2012
    Seaboard Foods was scheduled to begin the mobilization portion of construction on a new feed mill west of Holyoke April 30.
    Phillips County commissioners approved the purchase of security cameras for the Phillips County Event Center, as reported at their April 26 meeting.
    
    Ten Years Ago
    May 3, 2007
    After teaching in Holyoke for one year and serving as Holyoke JR/SR High School principal for five years, Dave Rice will be retiring from his position at the end of the current school year.
    Though a resignation from nurse practitioner Nancy Sanders does not necessarily leave Family Practice of Holyoke shorthanded, the district continues its search for an additional physician. MMH is still waiting for the Colorado licensing board to approve Dr. Maria Soto’s application, and another family practice physician will be visiting Holyoke in May.
    Water in Frenchman Creek was flowing steadily after two days of heavy rains. Local weather reporter Dan Kafka recorded 1.32 inches of rainfall April 23 and 1.54 inches April 24.
    
    Twenty-Five Years Ago
    May 7, 1992
    Security National Bank of Holyoke merged with The First National Bank of Wray under the Wray bank’s charter May 1. The resulting bank is First Pioneer National Bank, with sites in Holyoke and Wray.
    Adoption of a Phillips County Undesirable Plant Management Plan will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of County Commissioners May 15. If the plan is adopted, the district would be known as the Phillips County Weed and Pest Control District.
    The industrial technology class at HHS has been working hard on projects ranging from drafting houses on computers to building a robotic arm.
    
    Fifty Years Ago
    May 4, 1967
    A new business, Ken’s Canvas & Upholstery, has been opened in Holyoke by Kenneth Wettstein. The business is located in the former Holyoke Cleaners building on North Interocean Avenue, next door to J & F Cafe.
    The possibility of establishment of a statewide educational TV system in Colorado similar to that now in operation in Nebraska was a topic of discussion at a meeting held here Tuesday morning.
    Northeast Colorado escaped the fury of a severe spring blizzard that slammed across northern sections of the nation early this week, but more below-freezing weather has caused continuing concern about the winter wheat crop.
    
    Seventy-Five Years Ago
    May 7, 1942
    Salaries of nearly all employees of the Town of Holyoke were increased $10 per month at a meeting of the board Monday night. The board also ordered dancing in Holyoke to be stopped at midnight on Saturdays.
    A change in the reading of personal items and some other articles in the Enterprise is apparent to readers at a glance this week. All information is included in the items, despite their brevity. Actually saving of space and reduction in the amount of newsprint used each week by this paper has not yet become necessary, but this is WAR, even if the back porch of my home hasn’t yet been torn off by an enemy bomb.
    Records at the office of R.E. Gleason, official weather observer, disclosed this morning that 3.37 inches of moisture had been registered in Holyoke during the week.