Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Feb. 26, 2015

Gloria Heinitz is bringing her 50-year nursing career to a close this week. She has worked at Melissa Memorial Hospital since September 1970.

Sheila Gift is the newest member of the East Phillips County Hospital District board. She will fill the vacancy left by Harlan Stern following his resignation last October.

Ten Years Ago
Feb. 25, 2010

A fine mark in Holyoke High School wrestling history was notched Saturday night when the Dragons earned two state championships in the same year. Sophomore Mark Edmonds at 112 pounds and senior Chad Stroh at 135 led the five HHS qualifiers to a fourth-place finish. This also sets a record for the highest placing for a Holyoke team to rank in the state tournament. Stroh also claimed his third straight state title Saturday night.

Safety became the big player in Holyoke City Council members’ decision to keep the daily sirens just as they are and not include anything on the ballot. Options of different wordings for ballot questions were discussed, but then it was mentioned that the sirens would need to be tested regularly to ensure they were all working properly for fire and tornadoes.

Holyoke School District is excited to unveil a new tool for communication called Blackboard Connect notification system. At the Feb. 16 Board of Education meeting, Elementary Principal Kyle Stumpf described the system that is being piloted in the local school district.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
March 2, 1995

Ferne Kuskie will celebrate her 90th birthday March 15.

Cable USA’s franchise within the city of Holyoke was the topic of discussion for a second time at the Feb. 21 Holyoke City Council meeting. Representatives of Cable USA came before city council members requesting signatures on a “consent to granting of security interest,” and again, council members demanded answers as to why the City should cooperate with Cable USA when the cable company chooses to ignore the requirements of the franchise.

About 85 Holyoke High School juniors and seniors listened as area professionals discussed their jobs during the first annual Career Day on Feb. 21. The event was sponsored by the Vocational Business Advisory Committee, which formed the Career Development Program.

Fifty Years Ago
Feb. 26, 1970

An organizational meeting to form an affiliate for the blind of northeastern Colorado to the Colorado Federation for the Blind will be held March 7 in the community room of the Sterling Savings and Loan in Holyoke.

The members of the Holyoke High School bookkeeping classes and members of the vocational agriculture III and IV classes have recently completed a three-week study of income tax procedure.

Dariel Clark, Re-1J school superintendent, has been nominated by state school officials to represent the U.S. educational community as a participant in one of the American Association of School Administrators’ international field study missions to the Soviet Union from March 27-April 18.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
March 1, 1945

The bill doing away with the tokens in the collection of sales taxes will soon be a Colorado law. After March 1, no more tokens will be used. There will be no tax collected on sales up to and including 18 cents. After that, here will be the schedule: purchases from 19 cents through 68 cents, 1 cent; from 69 cents through $1.18, 2 cents; from $1.19 through $1.68, 3 cents; one cent more for each additional 50 cents.

The proposed labor draft law, if passed by Congress, will in effect recruit members for labor unions. If a man is drafted, he will be forced to join a labor union before he can work in a war industry.