Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Jan. 15, 2015

City council member David Churchwell submitted a letter announcing his resignation at the Jan. 6 Holyoke City Council meeting. Churchwell said he has accepted a general manager position with KC Electric in Hugo and will be moving away from Holyoke.

Colver Killin & Sprague LLP, attorneys at law, has added a new law associate to its firm. Rachel O’Toole is an attorney that will be coming to Holyoke on Tuesdays and will work out of the firm’s Parker office the rest of the week.

Ten Years Ago
Jan. 14, 2010

Luis and Dalia Perez welcomed a third son to their family as Jeremy Fernando Perez Ortiz was born at 12:48 a.m. on Jan. 9 to claim honors as Melissa Memorial Hospital’s first baby of the year.

City council members voted at their Jan. 5 meeting to turn off the daily whistles on the downtown tower located near Holyoke Marketplace and the fire station. The siren will still be used for tornadoes and fires.

MV Equipment (with five locations in Holyoke, Sterling, Wray, Yuma and Burlington) announced a change of ownership Jan. 1. Until the first of this year, the John Deere business was owned by Cal West and Robert Kircher of Sterling and Jerry and Shelley McArthur of Burlington. West and Kircher sold their interest to the McArthurs.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
Jan. 19, 1995

Jonica Danine Goens arrived at 2:24 a.m. Jan. 9 to be the first baby born in Holyoke this year. She is the first child of Todd and Kris Goens.

For 59 years, Shirley Kadlec of Holyoke put off trying to find her birth mother. But when she finally started looking, it took her four phone calls and a matter of minutes. In December, she went to Boulder to meet up with her birth mother.

One of Central Street Shoppes’ original stores, The Craft Depot, was recently purchased by Peni Carson from Tony and Cherrie Pierce and Jody Fiscus, effective at the first of the year.

Sid Smith was honored as the first inductee into the Holyoke Bowling Association Hall of Fame on Jan. 13 at Scormor Lanes. While Smith died May 24, 1994, he was aware of the honor that the local group had voted upon.

Fifty Years Ago
Jan. 15, 1970

Businessmen meeting in Wray last Monday night voted to proceed with the incorporation of the Northeast Colorado Business Management Association, after a yearlong study in a five-county area. The incorporation will make possible a consulting service for small-businessmen in rural communities.

Frank Duke Motor Co. was broken into sometime during the night of Jan. 8. Thieves failed in an attempt to open the safe, ending up with approximately $2 in change. Scholl Oil Station was entered the night of Jan. 9, and approximately $90 was taken. Again on Jan. 12, the station was broken into, and approximately $80 was taken. Thieves also entered the high school during the night of Jan. 12. The only thing taken was approximately $5 in small change.

The corporate stock of the Holyoke Drug Co. has been purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Guggenmos by a Holyoke group. Guggenmos will continue to manage the store for an indefinite period. The change of ownership will be effective Feb. 1.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
Jan. 18, 1945

A pheasant dinner was served the Holyoke Lions in the club’s regular Thursday evening meeting by the home economics department students of the Phillips County High School in the dining room of Posegate Hall. The pheasant was supplied by members of the club who had taken advantage of the recent open season for hunting the ringnecks.

Organizations planning to hold conventions, conferences, trade shows or group meetings after Feb. 1 “will have to show how the war effort would suffer if the meetings were not held,” Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of ODT and chairman of the War Committee on Conventions, has announced.

Three egg grading schools open to anyone interested are scheduled in Colorado this month in Yuma, Las Animas and Grand Junction. The purpose of these schools is to develop a better understanding and skill in grading of shell eggs, to promote better marketing practices by the producer, and to explain the four price support and purchase programs of the Office of Distribution, War Food Administration.