Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Oct. 18, 2012
    Holyoke police officer Larry Drake has been doing “community policing” with an outreach program at the elementary school, reading to students in kindergarten and first and second grades a couple times a week.
    Celebrating their humble beginning in 1992, Phillips County Family Education Services is hosting an open house on Oct. 25 for their 20th birthday.
    Oct. 5-6, 5 or more inches of snow fell in Holyoke. Just a few days earlier on Oct. 3, temperatures reached into the 90s, and temperatures were back in the 80s by the following week.
    Corn harvest occurred much earlier this year due to drier-than-normal conditions, with corn harvest being around 75 percent complete already.
    
Ten Years Ago
Oct. 18, 2007
    Jan Stoddard, who taught at Holyoke Elementary School for 22 years, recently opened up her own insurance business — Stoddard Insurance — at 114 E. Denver St.
    Three Holyoke eighth-graders, Jordan Zeiler, KrisAnna Ham and Austin Killin, attended a National Young Leaders State Conference in Denver Oct. 4-7.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Oct. 22, 1992
    Nine northeast Colorado counties will be impacted with the recent approval of funding of a federal Department of Health and Human Services grant entitled Child Welfare Service Enhancement. The grant will establish a replicable model for the delivery of specific children’s services on a regionwide basis. It is one of two grants awarded in the United States and is focused on rural issues related to children’s and family services.
    Finishing out her 16th year as the Heginbotham Library’s home-bound program coordinator at the end of this month, Lucia Vieselmeyer has announced her intent to retire from the position. Librarian Rose Kreher will be continuing the program.
    The search for a new city treasurer is underway following the announcement that Debbie Helgoth is resigning from that office, effective at the end of this year.
    Youth Outreach began in Holyoke Sept. 27. High school youth from 11 Missouri Synod Lutheran churches of northeast Colorado gathered in the HHS auditorium for a day of worship, fellowship and fun. The objective of the YO organization is to provide Christian materials and aids for study, as well as to promote fellowship for youth.
    
Fifty Years Ago
Oct. 19, 1967
    Two men and one woman were arrested in Imperial, Nebraska, Sunday evening in connection with the theft of approximately $70 from Rich’s Texaco station in Holyoke about 45 minutes earlier. It is believed that another theft was attempted at about the same time at the Phillips 66 station here.
    In a recent community attitude survey conducted by the Holyoke Jaycees, items receiving the most comment were possibility of a dog leash law, poor visibility at some street crossings, the need for more street crossing signs, poor sidewalks in some areas, the need for more employment opportunities and law enforcement.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Oct. 22, 1942
    So that Colorado State College students can assist in harvesting sugar beets, potatoes and other farm crops in Colorado that are now in a critical position, college classes will be dismissed for one week, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, until 8 a.m. Nov. 2.
    E.T. Finegan, who has operated the cafe known as Finnie’s for the last two years, will close Friday night, as he expects to enter the naval service. This is the third eating place in Holyoke to close — Kinch’s and Norman’s cafes having discontinued business during the last three months.
    The annual carnival of St. Patrick Church will be held in the basement of the church Monday night with numerous games to entertain the expected crowd.
    New Office of Defense Transportation regulation, No. 21, affecting all commercial vehicles goes into effect Nov. 15. After that date, no truck or pickup can get gasoline, tires or repairs without a “certificate of wartime necessity.”