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Margie Jeffers prepares for her favorite holiday as she gathers fun goodies for her Halloween bags for trick-or-treaters. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Jeffers puts a whole lotta love in her bags for trick-or-treaters
Making up for lost years when she lived in the country and had no trick-or-treaters, Holyoke’s Margie Jeffers now calls Halloween her favorite holiday.
This local Brownie troop is pictured by the old grade school building, probably in the late ’40s. Brownies are pictured from left, front row, Beverly Burchett, Martha Mathews, Patty Starbuck, Sharon Kay Sanders, Roberta Briggs and Thelma Wettstein; and back row, Betty Lee Fisbeck, Bette Lou Barth, Peggy Alberts, Loretta Claymon, Thelma Weiss, Retha Hagemann and Pasty Womble. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
Oct. 23, 2014
Mark Meusborn, at left, gives a high-five to Buna Dahal during her presentation to the Holyoke Lions Club Thursday, Oct. 10. The two became acquainted at the national convention of the National Federation of the Blind several years ago. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Though she is small in stature, blind inspirational speaker Buna Dahal says, “Dynamite comes in a small package.” — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
A vision to bring light to the darkness
In 1925 with a crowd of people in front of her, Helen Keller gave a challenge at the Lions Clubs International Convention.