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Dryness, wind aided fast spread of major grass fire Saturday
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Fostering friendships is important; just make those plans already!
“The weather sucks.”
“I’m exhausted.”
“We’re busy.”
These three postcards from 1911 can be combined to give a bird’s-eye view of Holyoke. The photos, taken from the belfry of the old grade school building, show the standpipe at far left (north of where the water tower now stands) all the way over to the site where the high school was to be built (west of the current high school building). The old Catholic church can be seen on the left side of the center picture. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
Nov. 6, 2014
The opening of the Londa Wernet Bradford Cancer Center at Melissa Memorial Hospital is celebrated at an open house Wednesday, Oct. 23. Sitting in a comfortable caregiver chair, at left, is Boyce Wernet, Londa’s dad, and at right, in the chemotherapy treatment chair, is Brad Bradford, Londa’s husband. Pictured in back, from left, are Yvonne Wernet, Londa’s stepmom; Patty Wernet, Londa’s sister-in-law; Wes White, MMH chief financial officer; Cathy Harshbarger, MMH chief clinical officer; Ty Wernet, Londa’s brother; Cindy Lock, MMH registered nurse with chemotherapy/biotherapy certification; and Nancy Colglazier, MMH Foundation executive director. The center will soon be open for chemotherapy treatments in Holyoke. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
New equipment in the Londa Wernet Bradford Cancer Center is kept in a set of three sterile mixing rooms.
Generous donors make chemo center a reality
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Fully committed to their table’s theme, Snow White and the seven dwarves were the best dressed at the 2019 CineMagic fundraiser. Sponsored by Hometown Liquor, group members are pictured from left, front row, Tracy Steggs, Rena Schneller and Kia Flaa; and back row, Veronica Marroquin, Jeanette Kingman, Jennifer Hayes, Shanda Willmon and Marcia Walter. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Annie Stephens at the “Animal House” table bids in Saturday’s CineMagic auction. Also at the table, Gary Carper is one of several people sporting a toga (and the chant to go along with it). — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Zombies, dwarves and cowboys help send Peerless into its third decade
This year has already been huge for the Peerless Theatre. Ringing in the new year, it celebrated 20 years since its reopening, and this summer marked a century since its original opening.