Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
June 18, 2015

Re-1J Foundation Inc. is accepting donations for an academic project to help the school music department buy enough instruments for every fifth grader to participate in band with a quality school instrument without a large expense.

Sherri Drescher of Holyoke was honored recently as Volunteer of the Year for the Area Agency on Aging of Northeast Colorado. The honor was earned as the result of her 576 volunteer hours logged at the Sunset View Meet and Eat/Meals on Wheels program in Holyoke.

TS GOLD assessments have been waived for Holyoke kindergartners, and a teacher evaluation process that does not include test scores as a measurable component will be utilized in the local school district. These two components of Holyoke School Distict Re-1J’s innovation zone application were approved June 10 by the State Board of Education.

Ten Years Ago
June 17, 2010

The Dominator vehicle from the show “Storm Chasers” on the Discovery Channel made a brief stop at Holyoke City Park on June 10. The Dominator is covered with Rhino Lining, is equipped with a complete roll cage and has the capability of lowering itself down to the ground with hydraulics to prevent wind from getting underneath.

New to this year’s Dandelion Daze is a life-size Candy Land game sponsored by My Little Angel, ECCLPS, Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and the Lisa B. Murphy Insurance Agency.

Mark Edmonds participated in the Cadet National wrestling duals in Rochester, Minnesota, this week at the 119-pound division for the state of Colorado.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 22, 1995

Nancy L. Sanders of Lancaster, California, a family nurse practitioner, returns to her native state of Colorado this week and looks forward to seeing patients at Family Practice of Holyoke, beginning June 26.

Following an executive session that lasted more than two hours, Holyoke City Council voted at a special meeting June 13 to apply for an Energy Impact Assistance grant to finance the purchase of Highline Electric Association property.

A new ATM has been installed on the southwest corner of the stoplight intersection in Holyoke. While ATMs are common in the cities, this is the first to come to Holyoke. Insertion of specified credit cards makes for ready cash.

Holyoke’s own Grace O’Neal attained her 90th birthday on June 20 and is still going strong.

Fifty Years Ago
June 18, 1970

Faith Heilman, her two daughters, Patricia and Julie, Nolan Oltjenbruns and Londa Baker left Holyoke Wednesday morning by car for Saltillo, Mexico. They will all attend a five-week course of study in Spanish at Saltillo. After a week of sight-seeing in Old Mexico, they will return to Holyoke. Mrs. Heilman is the Spanish language instructor in the Holyoke schools.

Educational history is being made rather than just being studied at a summer institute underway at the University of Northern Colorado. Fifty-six educators from La Junta, Holyoke and Arickaree school districts have united into one workshop in an effort to develop and implement a comprehensive vocational guidance program (kindergarten through grade 12).

Seventy-Five Years Ago
June 21, 1945

The Holyoke Spur Club held an invitational horse show at the county fairgrounds on Sunday, which drew entries from the riding clubs of Wray, Haxtun, Imperial and Holyoke. There were 100 horses entered.

Reports out of Washington are to the effect that gold mining will be resumed June 15. The gold mines have now been shut down almost three years. It was done as a war measure to get the miners to work in other types of mines. It never succeeded, but the gold mines were not reopened. Gold districts like Cripple Creek, Idaho Springs and others are looking for increased business with the closing order rescinded.