Winners from this year’s Peace Poster Contest, offered by the Holyoke Lions Club for children ages 11-13, line up during a club meeting. Pictured from the left are club member Gayla Mayden, third place winner Braylin Herman, second place winner Kynlea Nelson and first place winner Leah Armendariz. Armendariz will go on to the district level and, if she wins that, to state. Holyoke students have won both state and district in 2001 and 2012. — Photo by Andrew Turck
Owen Ortner watches a camera lens intently while dressed as a Minion. He won $5 at the Holyoke Lions Club’s Halloween costume parade in the age 3 category.
Jasely Leyva, dressed as Frida Kahlo, expresses delight from First Pioneer National Bank’s candy stand as costumed residents pass by.
Kingsley Rowan pokes her head out between stuffed cats made in her likeness Monday evening to discern her surroundings. Later that day, she would take second in the Lions Club costume contest under the category of children age 2.
Christian Loya gets his hat adjusted while “riding” an inflatable tyrannosaur toward Trunk or Treat festivities in Holyoke. Dinosaur costumes were a regular occurrence both there and in Trick or Treat the Town along Interocean Avenue.
Jackie Hale defends against a sudden onrush by a man dressed as a giant pig. No animals were harmed that evening during Melissa Memorial Hospital’s annual Trunk or Treat event, though one goat was dressed up as a unicorn.
Karen Corrado (second from the left) gathers with fellow Holyoke residents who helped with the local Lions Club’s 71st annual Halloween costume parade, held Monday evening in the old Holyoke High School gym. She joined the Lions Club Thursday evening and designed stickers with the club logo to place on candy bags and pass out to those in attendance. Pictured from the left are Betty Bahler, Leo the Lion, Corrado and Daniela Baeza. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise
At her first meeting in the Holyoke Colorado Lions Club, Karen Corrado volunteered to make stickers with the club logo for kids’ Halloween bags.
Sunshine Gang to meet Thursday
Sunshine Gang, a new local group for those age 55 and up, will meet Thursday, Nov. 3, at 2 p.m. at Sunset View for crafts, games, food and more.
Jayden Miracle (left), clinic manager for Family Practice of Holyoke shows some remote patient monitoring equipment with Tamara Laws, population health nurse. In her right hand, Miracle holds a blood pressure cuff and in her left a fitness tracker. Laws, in her left, holds both a Bluetooth scale and a body metrics monitor. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise
Holyoke’s remote patient monitoring system, which reduced emergency room visits among 94 percent of its participants, gained a spotlight recently in Colorado Springs at the 2022 Annual Rural Health
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