Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Aug. 29, 2013
    Boys golf, girls golf and girls swimming were approved as official HHS sports starting with the 2013-14 season. Approval was given at the Aug. 20 meeting of the Re-1J Board of Education.
    Phillips County commissioners voted Aug. 19 to place the 51st state issue on the Nov. 5 ballot this fall.
    Foreign exchange students studying at Holyoke High School are sophomore Robin Detterbeck from Germany and senior Federica Detomas from Italy.
    
Ten Years Ago
Aug. 28, 2008
    Ten high school students have embarked on a new format for education this year at the newly opened Holyoke Alternative School. Located in the 400 block of East Denver Street in the building which most recently housed Wolf Auto Center, the school is approaching education in a modified format.
    Grainland Cooperative, the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition and Colorado Corn partnered Aug. 20 to celebrate the opening of Holyoke’s new E85 pumps at Grainland Ampride. Now owners of flexible-fuel vehicles have the option of E85 when they fuel up at Ampride.
    Implementation of closed campus during the lunch hour for students in grades 6-8 has drawn some criticism and questions from area residents.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1993
    Holyoke’s business community grew by one this week with the Sept. 1 opening of the Flower Garden at 102 S. Campbell Ave. The full-service florist shop is owned by Karen Manly.
    Announcement that the IRS granted Holyoke Revitalization Inc. exemption from federal income tax highlighted the relatively new organization’s regular meeting.
    Rudy Haynes, Jon Kleve and Randy Haynes, all Phillips County 4-H members, earned grand champion honors at this year’s Colorado State Fair.

Fifty Years Ago
Aug. 29, 1968
    Plans for a Labor Day “rest stop” on Monday, Sept. 2, have been completed by the Holyoke Jaycees. Free coffee and doughnuts will be served by Jaycees to travelers on U.S. Highway 6 at the overnight campground at the west edge of Holyoke.
    Capt. Gerald L. Radcliff, son of the Roscoe Radcliffs of Holyoke, is the fourth-youngest officer ever to hold a command in the Air Force. He was recently named Junior Officer of the Week at Griffis Air Force Base, New York, where he is stationed.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1943
    So many inquiries have been made regarding the plans and purposes of the junior college under the wartime conditions that it seems worthwhile to briefly set down the essential facts, the most important of which is that the junior college of northeastern Colorado in Sterling is no longer an experiment. Two successful years have been completed in spite of the inroads in enrollment resulting from wartime conditions, and the third year will open Sept. 13.
    Production of hybrid seed corn is a new and highly specialized industry in Colorado. Seed of only the highest-yielding adapted corn hybrids is being produced by Colorado registered seed growers subject to inspection by a representative of the State Seed Growers’ Association.
    W.E. Heginbotham of Holyoke has been appointed chairman of the outstanding group which will constitute the Phillips County War Finance Committee for the Third War Loan Drive, staring Sept. 9. The most complete organization ever set up within the state for a financial campaign has been created to obtain the investment by Coloradans of $72 million in war bonds during September. The quota of Phillips County is $235,000, which is $50 per capita.
    Sam Powell and Otto Brethouwer this week leased Holyoke Market, which they have operated the past 13 years, to three of their employees, Wilbur Burchett, Darrell Patrick and Ervin Weber.