Relay For Life plans March 6 event
To learn more about the 2018 Relay For Life of Northeast Colorado, a Team Captain Party is scheduled at 5:30 p.m.
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Guy Hays and Myron H. Smith are pictured freezing ice cream in the back room of Big Brick Drug Store in Holyoke in the early 1900s. Dr. F.M. Smith built the drug store, which he and his son Myron operated until the doctor’s death in 1931. — source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
Feb. 28, 2013
In fierce Bible quizzing competition, the first person to stand up gets to answer the question. A typical quiz looks much like this, with quizzers attentively listening to the questions and physically ready to jump up as soon as they’re ready to answer. The team pictured competed in the Youth Challenge 2018 Jamaican Bible quizzing tournament earlier this month. — Photo by Emily Malmkar | EMDesign
Frances Patterson, seated at left, works with the team of students from Coronaldi School in Montego Bay, Jamaica, while students from last year’s Bible quizzing team look on. Formerly of Dailey, Patterson now lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and has traveled to Jamaica with Youth Challenge nine times. — Photo by Emily Malmkar | EMDesign
This particular photo was taken on a February 2014 trip to Jamaica, but such scenes are common, as Rick Cleaver, pictured at right, has served on close to 60 missions trips to Montego Bay with Youth Challenge.
1 book, nearly 60 trips, countless lives changed
How much of an impact can an experience in junior high have? What change can a single week in someone’s life make?
Librarian Laura Roth, pictured at right, sees Audrey Murray regularly as one of the patrons she delivers to at the Carriage House. — Johnson Publications
From one book-lover to another, access to reading is delivered
Ask any book-lover, and they’ll tell you that a library has the power to take its patrons to another world. But what if someone can’t make it to the library?