Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
April 10, 2014
    Holyoke High School senior Meg Strauss was recently awarded the Daniels Scholarship. She is one of approximately 250 new Daniels Scholars this year to be selected from the rigorous application, interview and selection process.
    At the April 1 City Council meeting, council members unanimously voted to move forward with a proposal to handle the drainage for the southwest portion of town, which should have made it possible for Robin Lake Development to begin developing commercial and residential lots. But the City and RLD failed to see eye to eye on the most fundamental aspects of the project, including ownership rights to the O’Neal pit.
    Holyoke FCCLA adviser Karen Ortner was recognized with the Master Adviser Award at the April 3-5 state conference in Denver.
    Colorado You Got Talent, a Colorado community competition, is stopping in Holyoke on May 6.
    
Ten Years Ago
April 9, 2009
    New court security measures are being taken to protect Phillips County Court House when court is in session. At their meeting March 31, commissioners announced that the only door that will be unlocked on court days is the door on the east side of the courthouse building. Those entering the building on court days will have to pass an inspection by the courthouse security officer with a magnetometer.
    Obviously worried about what kind of economic situation the current generation in power will leave them, Holyoke junior high and high schoolers had some tough questions for Congresswoman Betsy Markey when she addressed them at an assembly on April 6.
    Venango, Nebraska, farm-owner Martin Bremmer opened the region’s first hypnotherapy practice, Inner Life Hypnotherapy, last month.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
April 14, 1994
    KUNC, public radio station from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley is now on the air. The station can be reached by turning to 89.9 on your FM radio dial.
    A mortgage burning will be part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Holyoke Church of the Nazarene this Sunday, April 17.
    HHS baseball pitcher Josh Rahe pitched a perfect game and his second successful no-hitter as he blanked the Otis Bulldogs.
    
Fifty Years Ago
April 10, 1969
    An inch of rain before May 1 is needed if Colorado’s wheat crop is to amount to much. William G. Stewart, Colorado State University Extension agronomist, reports that there is more bare land in eastern Colorado this year than there has been in the past 20 years.
    Lyselle Cooper of Holyoke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Cooper, has been chosen as one of Colorado’s 1969 International Farm Youth Exchange program delegates.
    Phillips County license directories, which are published each spring by the Holyoke BPW Club, are now on sale at several business places in Holyoke and Haxtun.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
April 13, 1944
    Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Machamer of Manhattan, Kansas, have closed a deal with Mrs. Theodosia Ambrose, present owner and proprietor of the Burge Hotel for the hotel property. Possession will be given the new owners May 1.
    With the spring show and sale of the Midwest Hereford Association less than a week away, the new pavilion being constructed by the organization here on the Phillips County Fairgrounds is nearing completion. It will be ready for the Hereford cattle show sponsored by the association April 18, although there may be some finishing touches to be made afterward.
    A large hip-roofed barn was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon on the Russell Wood farm 3 miles southeast of Holyoke. The rural fire truck was hurried to the farm by volunteer firemen who with water from the truck’s tank were able to keep the blaze from spreading to the house and from consuming a stack of cane.
    A patriotic appeal has been made to homemakers to take advantage of the present abundant supply of fresh eggs and preserve several dozen for use next fall and winter when supplies may be scarce. Colorado farmers are producing more eggs than the market can absorb. Each homemaker who buys several additional dozen eggs today will be doing a patriotic duty by helping relieve congested markets.